French in Pages

I have French as a subject, and I was planning to use Pages to help me with it. So I have a couple of problems:
1. Pages language set to French, French words still come up wrong, although they are right.
2. Unable to get speech to say the French, just say it like an English person sounding-out the word
3. How do I get the accents? I have a new iMac keyboard, and in word i knew, but I can't find any support docs on it.
Thanks.

Hi, it's really easy
Accents are no problem if you select French as one of your input languages in System Prefernces (go to International and follow instructions).
Make sure you check Show Input Menu in menu bar, at the bottom of dialogue window in International preferences. You get a selection of little flags working like drop down menu. If a British or American flag is showing, click and you will see French flag down, scroll to select it and you are in French keyboard.
To see the keyboard layout, scroll further down the flag/language selection menu and choose show keyboard viewer. A little image of the AZERTY layour opens, you can click on the letters you need to type in French.
Use keyboard short-cut Command+Space to switch between English and French. Keyboard shortcut has to be activated - selected in System Preferences under Keyboard-Mouse because by default Command+Space opens Spotlight.
I am in France and use a French keyboard, but work in English and Russian. My children use two other languages for school work. So we constantly switch between languages.
Careful with using other keyboard shortcuts - for example Command+Z (undo) in French environment will close your document - Command+W.
Re French spellcheck flick through the pages of this forum - a few days ago there was a posting about this which works well.
Hope this helps
Sashura

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                thisDoc.setUnitsTo(memUnits);
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Hi all,
I'm using Pages.app to write a Japanese Document every week.
Everything works great, and I love the new fullscreen mode.
It keeps me away from checking blogs on my breaks! (And that can lead to a very long break.)
Now to the main topic, how do I disable what is called the "Smart Paste"??
There must be some way to do them in terminal, or something...
Having the feature for an English Document must be great.
However, having the feature in a Japanese Document, which technically does not use spaces in a sentence, isn't smart at all...

On Snow Leopard running in French, Pages running in French and Pages running in English behave like the Dale's copy : smart paste.
If my memory is good, some "clipboard enhancers" kill the feature.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 6 août 2011 14:51:20
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I have a mini with OSX installed. I got a friend that had wrote a book on his iMac (os9) with AppleWorks.
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Hello.
Toshiba confirms an update to ICS for the AT200 on the french FB page. It will arise during the summer.
FB page
http://www.facebook.com/toshiba.france/posts/10150973271834828?comment_id=23098573&offset=0&total_co...
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[OT] what's ACME?

Hello,
since tehcnically it's still friday in some far-western timezone, I feel entitled to ask a friday question:
What is the cultural reference (probably, of US origin) when a code sample mentions "acme" as a company name (often in package namespace com.acme.xxx, or as the example name of some company supposedly managed by the code).
Although Wikipedia has entries to describe the etymology and history of the venerable foo and bar variable names, I haven't found such an entry for acme
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Do you think it's the case (that computer scientists inspire from Roadrunner)?
Even then, where did the cartooners themselves coin this name?
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Jerome

Peter Lawrey wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_Corporation
Damn, I don't know how I missed that... I must have searched for "amce" (I mispelled that twice when I was writing the OP this morning).
Thanks for pointing this out. Note that the Wikipedia page indeed attributes the creation of this fictional company to Loney Tunes cartoons.
sja wrote:
The way I heard it was that ACME stands for A Company that Makes Everything.
I'm a bit surprised the Wikipedia article doesn't mention that theory. Would need a reliable source I guess.Interestingly, the French Wikipedia page does mention this acronym :o)
Using those words as a search term, I found a lot of collaborative sites that spell out this meaning or a derivative (Another Company..., American company,...).
YoungWinston wrote:
I particularly liked the observation that: "While their products leave much to be desired, Acme delivery service is second to none".Yes ;)
Also linked from the Wikipedia page, is a parodic complaint (plaintiff Will E Coyote, against defendant "ACME Corporation"): http://www.torinfo.com/justforlaughs/coyote_v_acme.html:
The sequence of collisions resulted in systemic physical damage to Mr. Coyote, (...) The distracting and embarassing nature of this symptom has been a major impediment to Mr. Coyote's pursuit of a normal social life (...)
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Mr. Coyote respectfully requests that the Court (...) censure Defendant (...) and reaffirm the right of the individual predator to equal protection under the law.

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