I want to keep my menu and other settings in American English but should be able within content of document choose the language I am composing, example Afrikaans, German, Spanish, English (British, American) etc.
How do one do that?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15
To change language, you go to Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Show Spelling and Grammar and change the language in the menu at the bottom.
To add an Afrikaans dictionary to Apple's system is something different. See
Adding Spellcheck Languages to MacOS - Apple Community
Thank you. I followed the instructions on Adding Spellcheck Languages to MacOS - Apple Community
The OpenOffice item had a link to get example Afrikaans. I added that by renaming it to zip, unzip it and moving the relevant files to ~Library/Spelling. Now, in example SCRIVENER writing software I am able to switch my project between English, Afrikaans, German etc. but keep my menus and other formats to US English.
Afrikaans dictionary for writing
