FM8 Commands in foreign language

If you just want to convert to English for spell-checking, that's possible.

In the Paragraph Designer, select the Default Font tab, and use Commands > Global Update Options to set all paragraphs to your chosen language.

--- Derek

Welcome to FM-land, bk.

There is no way to change the paratag and other format names from one language to another, no. FM's only language changing capability has to do with changing the display of the menu names in the program itself, nothing to do with anything in the actual file(s).

The only way that I can imagine for you to proceed would be to do global changes from one tag name to another, the ease of doing this might depend on your your files are organized, e.g. whether they're chapters in one or more books, or whether there are generated files such as indexes or TOCs because FM creates "synthesized" tag names based on the names in the files within the book, so changing tag names can be tricky until you understand how these work -- and what the German-English equivalents might be for the generated names.

If you have many files to contend with it might be much easier to consider using one of the third-party tools for tag management such as those found at

http://www.leximation.com/toolsearch/   or

http://www.cudspan.net/plugins/executioner.php?do=displayPage&field_tab_num=1

http://www.squidds.de/en/press/current-news-detail/article/20/toolbox-sq.html

http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/

Sheila