set language

Arbortext Command Language > set Command Options > set language

set language

set language= string

This command enables you to switch the Proximity/Merriam-Webster Linguibase to a different language dictionary. The default dictionary is English (US).

Dictionaries are available for the following languages:

• Arabic

• Bulgarian

• Brazilian

• British

• Canadian-English

• Canadian-French

• Catalan

• Croatian

• Czech

• Danish

• Dutch

• English

• Estonian

• Finnish

• French

• German

• Greek

• Hebrew

• Hungarian

• Italian

• Latvian

• Legal+English

• Lithuanian

• Medical+English

• Norwegian

• Nynorsk

• Polish

• Portuguese

• Romanian

• Russian

• Slovak

• Slovenian

• Spanish

• Swedish

• Swiss-German

• Thai

• Turkish

• Vietnamese

Norwegian is Bokmal. Medical+English is an English-based medical spell checking dictionary. Legal+English is an English-based legal spell checking dictionary.

To set a different default language to be used for a document, add the set language command to the document's .acl file. You can retrieve the list of language dictionaries being used by calling the languages function.