I normally have my dictionary set to American English. I am taking an online course that is based in England and uses British English. Accordingly I set my spell checker to British English (by double clicking in the status bar sometimes by the right click menu option) but it keeps switching back to American English.
How do I get the spell checker option to stick once I have changed it?
thanks
Kitimat
dictionary switching option not sticking
Hi Kitimat,
This needs some explaining.
You cannot actually “set [the Atlantis] spell checker to British English” (or any other language or locale for that matter). You or Atlantis associate text with a language. Atlantis uses the spellchecker dedicated to the language associated with the target text.
Here is how things work:
1. Any text that you type or paste is associated with a language. You can see this by making a selection or placing the insertion cursor within some word in the document window: the language indicator in the status bar tells you which language is associated with the current selection or cursor position.
2. When you type new text, it is automatically associated with the language associated with the character found at the insertion point. In other words, if you place the insertion cursor at some place in the document, and you read “US English” in the status bar, any newly-typed text will be associated with “US English”. Note that this is true only if
a) You haven’t set a “default language” for the current document through the “Format | Default language…” dialog. If this is the case, any newly-typed text will be associated with the set default language.
b) You have installed multiple “keyboard layouts” on your system through the Windows “Control Panel”, in which case Atlantis will automatically mark any newly-typed text with the language corresponding to the active keyboard layout.
3. When you paste text, it is often associated with some language. If you paste text with “Ctrl+V”, i.e. as “formatted” text (Rich Text Format), it will retain its original language coding unless a different “default language” has been set for the current document. If you paste text as “Plain text” or “Plain Unicode text” (“Edit | Paste Special…”), or “As Environment” (through “Ctrl+Alt+Ins”), i.e. as “unformatted” text, it will be associated with the language current at the insertion point unless you have set a default language for the document. Note that pasted text can originally have been marked with a wrong language or locale. This has to be corrected manually unless you have set an appropriate language as default language, or if if you paste “as environment”.
For more details, please have a look at Text Language.
Now, regarding your specific query. If you intend to type or paste only British English, the easiest way to go about this is to set a default language for the current document, or for the template(s) used to create these British English documents.
HTH.
Cheers,
Robert
This needs some explaining.
You cannot actually “set [the Atlantis] spell checker to British English” (or any other language or locale for that matter). You or Atlantis associate text with a language. Atlantis uses the spellchecker dedicated to the language associated with the target text.
Here is how things work:
1. Any text that you type or paste is associated with a language. You can see this by making a selection or placing the insertion cursor within some word in the document window: the language indicator in the status bar tells you which language is associated with the current selection or cursor position.
2. When you type new text, it is automatically associated with the language associated with the character found at the insertion point. In other words, if you place the insertion cursor at some place in the document, and you read “US English” in the status bar, any newly-typed text will be associated with “US English”. Note that this is true only if
a) You haven’t set a “default language” for the current document through the “Format | Default language…” dialog. If this is the case, any newly-typed text will be associated with the set default language.
b) You have installed multiple “keyboard layouts” on your system through the Windows “Control Panel”, in which case Atlantis will automatically mark any newly-typed text with the language corresponding to the active keyboard layout.
3. When you paste text, it is often associated with some language. If you paste text with “Ctrl+V”, i.e. as “formatted” text (Rich Text Format), it will retain its original language coding unless a different “default language” has been set for the current document. If you paste text as “Plain text” or “Plain Unicode text” (“Edit | Paste Special…”), or “As Environment” (through “Ctrl+Alt+Ins”), i.e. as “unformatted” text, it will be associated with the language current at the insertion point unless you have set a default language for the document. Note that pasted text can originally have been marked with a wrong language or locale. This has to be corrected manually unless you have set an appropriate language as default language, or if if you paste “as environment”.
For more details, please have a look at Text Language.
Now, regarding your specific query. If you intend to type or paste only British English, the easiest way to go about this is to set a default language for the current document, or for the template(s) used to create these British English documents.
HTH.
Cheers,
Robert