[bksvol-discuss] Re: changing dictionaries in Word
- From: "Gerald Hovas" <GeraldHovas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 09:56:33 -0500
Tracy,
Forgot to mention that marking the entire book in another language can cause
speech synthesizers which support multiple languages to choose the wrong
language when reading a book, so you'll want to select everything when
you're finished and set the text back to American English.
I found this out when I validated a book by someone who had recently
returned from living in England for a while. She, of course, had set her
word processor to British English while living in England and had forgotten
to change it back when she returned. Seems like I saved the file as an HTML
file to see what happens to bold and italics, and Elloquence began reading
the file with a British accent. Might have been OK if it had been one of
the Harry Potter books.
BTW, one way to improve reading for members using speech is to mark the
foreign phrases with the appropriate language. This will not only help with
spell checking, but should help with pronunciation later on, too.
HTH
Gerald
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 9:34 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: changing dictionaries in Word
Thanks Gerald. That is a huge help. I just selected the whole document,
changed language, and there I was!
Tracy
> Tracy,
>
> You have to select the text which you want the British spell checker to
> check then go into the Set Language box and specify it as British. If you
> don't select any text, then all you've done is specify that the text
> you're
> about to insert at the cursor is British, so if you don't type anything
> then
> you don't wind up with any text marked as British.
>
> HTH
>
> Gerald
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 8:28 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] changing dictionaries in Word
>
> It would be really nice to be able to switch dictionaries in Word, for
> instance, from American English to British English, so spell-checker
> wouldn't find errors that aren't errors. I have tried switching the
> language under the language menu, but it doesn't stick; it switches right
> back to American English. Does anyone know how to switch to British
> spelling dictionaries for spell-checking a book?
> Tracy
>
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