Mac OS X Lion Pocket Guide by Chris Seibold

Author:Chris Seibold [Chris Seibold]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Macintosh
ISBN: 9781449312107
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 2011-07-19T16:00:00+00:00

Language & Text

The Language tab of the Language & Text preference pane lets you set the language your Mac uses.

The Text tab is helpful if you spend much time typing. It includes a list of symbol and text substitutions your Mac performs, which lets you do things like type (r) and have it automatically show up as ®. Even better, you can add your own substitutions. Click the + button below the list to add whatever text you want substituted and what you want to replace it with; make sure the checkbox to its left is turned on, and your Mac should make that fix automatically from then on. This won’t work in every application, but in the supported ones, text substitutions can save you a lot of effort.

On the Text tab, you can also adjust how Mac OS X checks your spelling (the default is automatic by language, but you can have it check everything for French even if your Mac is using English). The Word Break setting affects how words are selected when you double-click on a word, and two drop-down menus let you customize how double and single smart quotes are formatted.

From the Formats tab, you can control the format of the date, time, and numbers on your machine; pick which currency symbols you want to use; and pick between US (imperial) and metric units of measurement.

On the Input Sources tab, you can turn on “Show Input menu in menu bar,” which adds a multicolor flag to the otherwise grayscale menu bar. If you check the box labeled Keyboard & Character Viewer (at the top of the list of input sources), you’ll be able to launch the Character Viewer and Keyboard Viewer from the menu bar.

The “Input source” list lets you select the language you want to type in. You can choose anything from Afghan Dari to Welsh, which can mean a lot of scrolling. To speed things up, use the search box at the bottom of the window to find the language you are after.

You can choose as many languages as you like and switch between them using the flag menu extra that appears in your menu bar automatically when you select multiple languages. So you don’t have to spend all day changing languages, you can assign the languages globally or locally, respectively, using the radio buttons labeled “Use the same one in all documents” and “Allow a different one for each document.”

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.