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Foreign Languages

QuarkXPress is a single-language application. When you want to work in more than one language, Quark requires that you buy a more expensive version of the program called Passport. If you use Passport, you can set language as a paragraph attribute, and then use the application to spell check and hyphenate in the 12 supported languages. However, if you're exchanging a file with a regular QuarkXPress user, you must save the file in a single-language version, where you lose the language-specific spell checking and hyphenation.

InDesign takes a more international point of view: Out of the box, it includes 20 dictionaries for 12 languages which are used for spell-checking and hyphenation. (However, to use languages beyond those includedlike Japanese or Hebrewyou must purchase a special language edition of InDesign.)

The extra dictionaries are not installed by default. To use them, you must do a custom install from the InDesign 2.0 installer CD. On the Macintosh, when you get to the step where the default choice is Easy Install, instead select Custom Install and then turn on the Dictionaries option. In Windows, when you get to the step where the default is Typical, click Custom and then turn on the Dictionaries option. Then continue with the installation process. (Yes, if you've already installed InDesign, you can install the dictionaries by themselves.)

Applying Language to Text

InDesign sees language as a character attribute, not a paragraph attribute as in QuarkXPress Passport. That means you can select any amount of text you want with the Type tool and choose a language in the Language popup menu on the Character palette (see Figure 42-1). You can also set a character or paragraph style to a specific language. (Note that before you can include a language in a character or paragraph style, you must have already applied the language to text somewhere in the document. The styles dialog boxes and the Find/Change dialog box only lists languages that you've actually used.)

This means you can mix languages within the same paragraph, and when InDesign is either spell-checking or hyphenating, it uses the appropriate language dictionary for the text it is working with.