Re: [libreoffice-users] LO dictionaries

Thank you!

On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, 05:18 Brian Barker, <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> wrote:

> At 23:45 17/10/2019 +0200, Pat Brown wrote:
> > I have changed my settings to use only the English UK dictionary ...
>
> I don't think you have! Language is a property of various parts of
> text within a document, not some setting in the product.
>
> > ... but when I open a document it shows the English USA dictionary
> > at the bottom of the page.
>
> No, it shows that this is the language set for text at the insertion
> point, nothing about dictionaries.
>
> > How can I change this so that it never uses the USA dictionary?
>
> I hope you cannot. If I send you a document in which I have
> appropriately chosen to mark some or all of its text as "English
> (USA)" (unlikely, in fact, but possible), your installation of the
> program needs to respect that. What you *can* do is two things:
>
> o Set the default language for *new* documents that you create to
> "English (UK)", if that is what you desire.
>
> o Change the language marked for all or part of the text within a
> particular document to whatever is appropriate. Note that language is
> a character property, so you can apply language as local - direct -
> formatting, but it is better to learn about styles and apply language
> settings using character styles or paragraph styles.
>
> > In fact, how can I delete the USA dictionary so that it is not even
> available?
>
> It's never a good idea to go about tinkering with software and
> deleting files, of course, but rather to use the product properly.
> But even if you could do this, it would not - and should not -
> prevent any text in any document being marked as "English (USA)". It
> would simply mean that any such text could not have its spelling
> checked: it would not somehow be magically checked using a dictionary
> for another language. That would require the program to read your
> mind: Finnish, Latvian, Esperanto? Oh, English (UK), eh?
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker

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