Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple language settings for spell check

On 04/12/2012 10:14 PM, Dan Lewis wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 20:15 -0400, Calvin Kim wrote:
> > Is there a way to spell check multiple languages at once?
> > If Western and Asian language are mixed, LibO seems to understand
> > differences and use proper language dictionaries. But if I try to use
> > two Western languages like English and Spanish, all Spanish words are
> > filtered, because LibO only use English dictionary to spell check.
> >
> > I just found out, in Adobe Illustrator, you can highlight words and
> > assign them to proper language setting, so that spell check will not
> > pick them up as typo. It would be nice if LibO has a similar function.
> >
> > For an example, if there is an option in 'character style' setting to
> > set languages. Then LibO will know exactly which words are in what language.
> >
> > How do you think?
> >
> > cK
>       Yes there is. Chapter 7 of the Writer Guide contains a section on
> Paragraph styles. This will tell you how to assign a language for
> spelling to a selected paragraph. So, you can have one or more
> paragraphs in Spanish and some other paragraphs in English. By creating
> a paragraph style for English and another for Spanish and assigning them
> their respective paragraph styles, you can correctly spell check the
> entire document.
>       If you want to mix words from different languages in a single
> paragraph, create the appropriate character styles for the desired
> language (done the same way as when creating paragraph styles for
> languages). By doing this, I can correctly spell check the following
> paragraph for three languages at once:
>       No hablo Español. Aber Ich kann Deutch. Neat little trick, isn't
> it?
>       Comment: I applied the Spanish character style to the first
> sentence and German to the second sentence. Since my chosen language is
> English (USA), the spell checker automatically checked spelling in
> English for anything that did not have a language character style
> applied to it.
>
> --Dan

That's right. You can change the language in font tab.
I just overlooked even though I use it everyday.
Thanks.

cK

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