Preferences / New File: US English won't go away

[perran]

In preferences / new file I cannot change the US English setting. I have read Martin's FAQ. If I select British English the drop box returns to US English. The OSX is set to British English as first choice. All the styles are set to British English. The default style is set in the advanced tab, so I suppose it doesn't matter too much what the new file settings are, but ... What have I missed? (Incidentally the Sample window at the side of the selections in preferences / new file and / advanced always show blank - should they show the style (my default has two table lines in it))?

[Ruchama]

Try to enter the actual New File through the Advanced tab, and select your language from there. save it, re-login and see whether that helps.

[perran]

Thanks. As I said, I have set a default file in the advanced tab, and that is OK. So I assume that once you do that then the new file / format tab is just irrelevant. If so, it is a little clumsy - I just wanted to be tidy!

[martin]

The language popup button in the "New File" preferences does take its value from the Nisus New File (NNF). So if your NNF and new files you create are in order, it's nothing to worry about.

That said, it's weird that the setting misbehaves for you and that the sample text in the "New File" preferences is blank. In your "Languages" preferences tab, do you have "English (British)" listed? If not, perhaps adding it will fix the odd behavior. It would be helpful to us if you could submit a feedback report using the menu Help > Send Feedback after you unsuccessfully try to change the language popup button. Thanks.

[perran]

Thankyou Martin. Oddly enough, British English has now appeared. That may be because I had restarted the Mac, and the previous setting had been English and not British English. So that problem resolved - I think your diagnosis was right, but that I needed to reboot. The image of the sample file remains blank, though.

[martin]

If the sample text is blank, it's still worth sending in a feedback report. The missing sample may not affect you, but it may point to some deeper problem. You should send in a feedback after you load up the New File preferences and see the blank sample.