Hi! I'm a new mac user and need to use Latin spellchecking for some of my work. Previous messages I read suggested downloading Cocoaspell, but that site says that it is not compatible with Mac Pages. And, I've tried marking Latin in the System Preferences, but it doesn't appear in Pages.
Is there anything that will work? If so, would someone be kind enough to give me a recommendation with step by step directions.
Thank you!
If you are using Snow Leopard or later you can download and install dictionaries from LibreOffice or OpenOffice.
Peter
CocoAspell does work on Snow Leopard and with Pages (at least on my machine)!
Go to this site: http://cocoaspell.leuski.net/
The dictionaries for Cocoaspell are here http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/0index.html
This is a link to a Latin dictionary which opens in the Dictionary application.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/home_learning/wordslatindictionary.html
Thanks for the Latin dictionary link. I successfully downloaded it.
I would like to be able to select my Latin text in my document, click on language in the inspector and select Latin and have it come up. Is there a way to do that? Right now i can't mark text as Latin.
colleenmaura wrote:
have it come up.
What do you mean by that exactly? Don't you find Latin (Library) listed under Inspector > Text > More > Language at the bottom of the list?
Didn't you go and look at the cocoaspell link?? That is the one to use to get the Latin in Pages spell check. The dictionary was just someting extra I stumbled on.
colleenmaura wrote:
I would like to be able to select my Latin text in my document
Dictionary.app has no connection to spell checking. As Fruhulda mentioned, you must use the cocoaspell link or the openoffice suggestion made by Peter to get that.
I went to the cocoaspell link and that is what downloaded the dictionary. When I attempt to download the other la pack which I think has spellcheck, the DictUnifier won't let me select it. I previously loaded it for Open Office, but can't get it to work with Pages.
Latin appears in the list in my system preferences, but will not show up in my inspector window in pages at the bottom of th elist.
DictUnifier has nothing to do with spellcheck as far as I know, perhaps you need to start over to de-confuse things.
See this note:
http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2011/06/extra-spell-checking-dictionaries-for.html
Use Option 1 and find Latin. Download the OOo pack. Inside it find la.zip and double click on it to get the la folder. Inside the folder you will see la.dic and la.aff. Drag/drop them to your folder Home/Library/Spelling.
Thank you Tom!
Success at last!
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