IBooks Author, one book multiple languages!

Hey,
I am writing a book in iBooks author that will eventually be published in the US, Europe and Canada. It is a technical publication and while the content is identical regardless of where you are reading the book I want to be able to publish different versions to take account of regional spelling differences (Tire/Tyre, airplane/aeroplane, harbor/harbour, etc).
What I want to do is to write the book in US English, make a copy and then be able to change the books entire language to Candadian or British English in such a way that a spellcheck will correct the words that are spelt differently in the different countries.
The problem I see is that in the main document settings the language list only contains English and not the specific types of English I am looking for and changing the language text in every box doesnt seem to make the spellchecker work.
Any ideas??

xr270 wrote:
in the main document settings the language list only contains English and not the specific types of English I am looking for
What settings are those? The Inspector has them all
In any case, I don't think you do what you want without human editing. The OS X spellcheckers are not good enough.

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K T wrote:
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