Setting default language to British English

[Ricardo Berlasso]

El mar, 31 ene 2023 a las 14:22, Paul Stansell (<paulstansell at gmail.com>)
escribió:

> Hello,
>
> I'm struggling to have LyX start with the default language set to British
> English.
>
> I can set the language of an already-open document to British English by
> setting the following:
>
>    Document > Settings > Language > Language: English (UK)
>

In the lower part of the document settings window there is a "Save as
default" button. Any change you made to the Document → Settings will be set
as default for any new document.

Regards,
Ricardo



>
>
> but I can't work out how to make British English be the default for a new
> document.
>
> I tried following the suggestions at https://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/SettingLANG,
> but none worked for me.
>
> For example, if I have
>
>    Tools > Preferences > Language Settings > User interface language:
> Default
>
> and I try to specify the language explicitly and start LyX with
>
>     LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 lyx
>
> the default language is set to US English instead of British English.
>
> I also tried putting the following in my ~/.lyx/preferences file
>
>     \default_language en_GB.UTF-8
>
> but that didn't work either.
>
>
> I'm not sure if this is relevant, but I noticed that I can choose "English
> (UK)" once I open a document here
>
>    Document > Settings > Language > Language: English (UK)
>
> but not before I open a new document here
>
>    Tools > Preferences > Language Settings > User interface language:
> English
>
> as the only relevant choice I have is "English"
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
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