Change the language per document possible?

[pruus]

I make different documents, and want the spelling checked in every document. How can i change the language per document? Some hints... please..

[Dave Harris]

The language used for spell checking is set for each character from the Character panel Languages section. You should be able to use that to set the default in a new document, so that subsequent text uses it. Better is to use text styles and change it in the style.

[Zuzu]

But how? I have to click on every text and change it in 'character' section

In document set up there is no such option

 

[walt.farrell]

2 minutes ago, Zuzu said:

But how? I have to click on every text and change it in 'character' section

In document set up there is no such option

 

As long as you use Text Styles for all your text, you can edit the Text Style named Base and change its Spelling Language to the one you want for the document. All the other Text Styles provided by Publisher inherit from Base.

If you use your own Text Styles, you can accomplish the same by making sure that they all inherit from one text style, whose language you will set.

[md guevaras]

If I use several fonts in a document and I'd like to do what you're suggesting - creating my own text styles - in order to have the language changed, Im going to have to manually create a style for each used font. 

Isn't there a way to just change the language for all the text frames or document at once? 

I tried to create a new document with a different language and it doesn't give me that option either. 

There must be a trick here - seems a rather simple problem.

Thank your for your help!

[walt.farrell]

14 minutes ago, md guevaras said:

If I use several fonts in a document and I'd like to do what you're suggesting - creating my own text styles - in order to have the language changed, Im going to have to manually create a style for each used font. 

Isn't there a way to just change the language for all the text frames or document at once? 

I tried to create a new document with a different language and it doesn't give me that option either. 

There must be a trick here - seems a rather simple problem.

Thank your for your help!

If you use the default text styles provided by Affinity, then simply edit the Base text style and set the language you want there.

If you use your own text styles, then simply start with one that all the others are based on, and set the language there.

If you have multiple languages, then yes, you would need a character text style for each language. It could specify the language and leave all other settings unchanged.

[JQL]

There should be a base language for a document that affects it overall and by default and only then would it be useful to change text styles.

There can be examples of documents that feature multiple languages in the same page and don't necessarily fit different text styles.

Also, some users, like myself, will work mainly with images and won't bother setting up text styles as they use a single text style throughout the model.

Now that I've done it that way I will have to select each text box and change the language for all. This method really is cumbersome.

[MikeTO]

3 hours ago, JQL said:

There should be a base language for a document that affects it overall and by default and only then would it be useful to change text styles.

There can be examples of documents that feature multiple languages in the same page and don't necessarily fit different text styles.

Also, some users, like myself, will work mainly with images and won't bother setting up text styles as they use a single text style throughout the model.

Now that I've done it that way I will have to select each text box and change the language for all. This method really is cumbersome.

You can set the default language for a document without using text styles.

1. Create a document.
2. Choose the Frame Text tool.
3. Set Character > Language > Spelling to the language you want.
4. Choose the Art Text tool.
5. Character > Language > Spelling will already be set to the language you want but you must click the list to open it and re-select the language. Trust me, this is a required step. Affinity has separate defaults for frame text and art text and this is the only way to set it for both. Now all text frames, art text, shape text, path text, and tables you create will be formatted with that language. The language of existing text objects will not be changed of course.

[JQL]

Thank you for the heads up! Do tables need that too?

I will do it from now on, as best practice, but I still think some defaults should be possible to be defined by users, system wise. Language is certainly so.

One  thing that concerns me, usually, with apps, is that even if I'm Portuguese I like UI language to be set as English. There is way more info online and tutorials in Eenglish than any other language. However, of course, most of my documents are written in Portuguese, from Portugal, (not from Brazil). Usually this is seamlessly solved and only Affinity has caused me issues so far.

I must also tell you that I find the UI isn't very streamlined, and a bit all over the place and hard to customize. We shouldn't have to come to the forums to change into an unsupported language. Or at least we shouldn't require google to aid us on that. A simple button to install/download other languages should send us here, or to a regular page where we would download the assets, without the need to subscribe to an user forum. (Even if I'm all up to forums.)

 

[MikeTO]

4 hours ago, JQL said:

Thank you for the heads up! Do tables need that too?

I will do it from now on, as best practice, but I still think some defaults should be possible to be defined by users, system wise. Language is certainly so.

One  thing that concerns me, usually, with apps, is that even if I'm Portuguese I like UI language to be set as English. There is way more info online and tutorials in Eenglish than any other language. However, of course, most of my documents are written in Portuguese, from Portugal, (not from Brazil). Usually this is seamlessly solved and only Affinity has caused me issues so far.

I must also tell you that I find the UI isn't very streamlined, and a bit all over the place and hard to customize. We shouldn't have to come to the forums to change into an unsupported language. Or at least we shouldn't require google to aid us on that. A simple button to install/download other languages should send us here, or to a regular page where we would download the assets, without the need to subscribe to an user forum. (Even if I'm all up to forums.)

The steps above will do it for tables, too. You may also want to set the default language for your text styles for all future documents, too, if you're using the UI in English but writing in Portuguese. You can find the instructions in the "Setting Languages" topic of my free Publisher manual. Cheers

[JQL]

I didn't realize you had a manual. That's very handy and thanks!

[MikeTO]

37 minutes ago, JQL said:

I didn't realize you had a manual. That's very handy and thanks!

I will upload an expanded edition when 2.6 is released, so visit the thread again then.

Cheers

[JQL]

That solves the issue right at the beginning of the manual, thanks!

The manual is great for a lot of reasons!

Incredible work!