On 2019-05-02, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > I wanted to compare my settings of the Lyx document with the one of a > Help file (i have chosen Users Guide). However, the Text there is in > German, although I have set the language under > tools>preferences>language settings>English
Under normal conditions, this would make the menu entries under Help>... look for the English version of the documentation. OTOH, it will have no influence on the files opened with File>Open. (There, you can select the several language subdirectories like "de/" for German.) What is the proposed path if you try "File>Save As" on the opened UserGuide with German text? > and under Document settings>Language>English (USA). With this setting, you change the language declaration, i.e. you tell LyX which language's conventions to use when processing the document. This influences hyphenation, auto-generated text parts and spell-checking but does not traslate the literal text. Sometimes, even more changes occure, e.g. changing Document_settings>Language> to Greek will render the output in Greek letters (unless you are using non-TeX fonts). Günter
