Manage languages on iWork

Question

I've been trying to fix some language issues I have on Pages '09 (on Keynote and on Numbers as well) because I work with different languages, depending on the document.
My MacBook Pro has set English as the default language and everything is displayed in English. But when I work in an other language on Pages (basically) I don't know how to set the language I'm going to work in when I open a new document or something. I could change each style to the wanted language but it would take so much time and I should do this each time I open a new document and need to work in a different language.
I also need to know how to mark the "Auto Capitalization" button but to perform just after a "." and not when I type the letter "i" when I'm not writing in English, because one of the languages I use the most in my documents is Catalan, and "i" means "and" not "I", which is "jo" fyi.
Finally, I'd like to know how to set the DIN-A4 size as default in all the default templates, since I never print on US Letter size. Otherwise I need to go to "page settings" each time I create a new document.
I'm sort of new to the iWork thing and I'm still learning how to move around so this question may be stupid, but I've tried and I haven't succeeded! hahaha
To sum up, I need to know how to:
Set a default language for Pages '09 (independently on the language I have set on my MacBook Pro)
Omit the "i" to "I" auto-capitalization when I'm not using English
Set DIN-A4 as the default size
Thanks in advanced!

Answer 1

Actually I made a mistake Catalan was also included in OSX 10.6.8.
You can switch your Input Source using command space and option command space.
However you need to understand that in Pages and elsewhere in OSX, languages are attributes of the text just like being bold, or red or in Times New Roman.
You can rapidly change all your styles in a document by just typing a series of words separated by returns.
Click on each in turn to apply all the styles in the Styles Drawer. Now select all the text and set the language in:
Inspector > Text > More > Language > click on each style in turn and update it via the red arrow next to it in the Styles Drawer > Save as Template
In your case there is no Catalan dictionary but you may be able to use the Español option and add the Catalan exceptions, using learn in the Spell Checker.
You are also supposed to be able to add the open language dictionaries from OpenOffice:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/10/04/road_to_mac_os_x_leopard_dictionar y_2_0.html
http://davidtse916.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/adding-dictionaries-to-the-built-in- dictionary-application-in-leopard/
http://nagpals.com/posts/mac-dictionaries/
http://m10lmac.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/extra-spell-checking-dictionaries-for.htm l
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=14135
http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Adding_Additional_Dictionaries
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/8751/cocoaspell
http://onsoftware.en.softonic.com/how-to-add-extra-dictionaries-to-os-x-and-iwor k
http://code.google.com/p/texworks/wiki/SpellingDictionaries
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/mlingos9.html
http://www.abisource.com/~fjf/InvisibleAnt/Dictionaries.html
http://www.downloadformac.org/mac/General-Catalan-dictionary-2201/4564
http://mac.softpedia.com/downloadTag/Catalan+dictionary
There are also 3rd party dictionaries available. Tom Gewecke is our Apple Treasure on all things language and may be able to help you with this.
Peter