Paul Smith wrote: > >I am typing a document and when I try to spell check it, LyX tries to do > >it using "German (new spelling)". This LyX behaviour is most strange > >since I have selected French as the language of the document (in > >Layout-->Document). Any hints? > > I have myself solved the problem. I am posting the solution as it may be > useful for someone: I selected the whole text and > Layout-->Character-->Language, selecting the appropriate idiom.
IMHO, the spellchecker interface is still incomplete. Just tested on lyx-qt 1.3.3.It tries to call ispell with the language set in Layout>Document>Language, but this fails e.g. when my default is German with inputencoding (latin-1) and the document is in English. I had to change the settings in Edit>Preferences>Language>Ispell to solve this (and it did not work for still unknown reasons). We need to enhance the Ispell preferences GUI to provide settings for different languages. Besides the inputencoding, also the private dictionary is usually language dependend. Günter -- G.Milde at web.de
