Thanks so much for your speedy responses, Hamid and THDW! While I was wailing and gnashing teeth, the key to this jail cell was sitting in that row of little flags at the bottom of the page. Resetting the Stars&Stripes icon to its Dutch red-white-blue equivalent did the trick, instantly. Excuse me while I blush. Should have asked here much sooner, eh. Thanks again Aller On 5/06/2012, at 4:00 PM, NISUS automatic digest system wrote: > Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 07:05:02 +0100 > From: Hamid Haji <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: NWP spell checking woes > > On 4 Jun 2012, at 05:46, Aller Spanninga wrote: > >> This question is so basic it will probably be trampled underfoot by >> you veteran Nisus-stalwarts. But here goes, anyway: having dusted >> off a half-finished Dutch magazine contribution started some time >> ago I noticed NWP underlines most words in red. Hardly surprising: >> under Preferences - Languages, NWP is set to English (U.S.) and all >> my attempts to reset that default to another language have so far >> failed miserably, nor have I found any solace in the NWP User >> Manual on this matter. After selecting "Dutch" under Preferences -- >> Languages and ditto in the Spelling Window, that latter selection >> flips back to "English (U.S.)" right after the first 'correction'. >> This is how it works: the spell checker stops on the first >> (correctly spelt) Dutch word and offers to change it into … that >> very same Dutch word. Accept the offer and the checker promptly >> jumps to the next correctly spelt Dutch word but also snaps back to >> its "English (U.S.)" default. Re-select "Dutch" and accept the new >> non-change, then the language instantly flips back to "English >> (U.S.)" and so on and so forth. This is the junction where I grit >> my teeth and give up, muttering unprintables. > > In NWP you can have as many languages as you want. > View the image on this page: > http://www.nisus.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=3887 > Languages available are shown in the left column. If a language you > want to use is not available, press the '+' button and a list of > languages will appear from which you can add languages. > Then for each language that you use, you have to set the > corresponding spelling dictionary if it is not already set by > default. Select the Dutch flag in the left column and make sure that > in the right column at 'Spelling:' the menu shows 'Nederlands'. > Now any text in a NWP file to which the language 'Dutch' is applied > will be checked by 'Nederlands' spell checker. > > Hamid > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 09:15:54 +0300 > From: THDW <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: NWP spell checking woes > > On 4 Jun 2012, at 07:46, Aller Spanninga wrote: > >> then the language instantly flips back to "English (U.S.) > > Possibly you are checking a word at a time in Dutch and then your > checker is reverting to English as default. > > There is a set of flags at the bottom of your page. > > Select ALL your text and then opt for the language you wish to check > in and click on the corresponding flag. > > T > > ------------------------------ > > End of NISUS Digest - 31 May 2012 to 4 Jun 2012 (#2012-50) > **********************************************************