Auto-prevention of split hyphenated words between pages

I routinely have hyphenation turned off, but I'm astonished that FM would break a word across a page boundary. If it does that, it would probably also break across column boundaries (and multi-column might be the main case for using hyphenation).

Does making adjustments to ¶ Widows & Orphans help at all with this artifact?

Hi @Sam State:

This is not a feature of FrameMaker, and I'm 99% sure regular expressions can't isolate automatic hyphens. I think Lin's right that scripting could be the only possible way to automate this. (Not my area either.) I'll add the scripting tag to your post to see if anyone with those skills chimes in.

~Barb

I don't think there's any way to easily do that.

You might be able to build a regular expression to search for that finds all system-inserted hyphens, or at least all the hyphens. When you find one that is the last character on the page, select the hyphen and press Esc n s. That's a fairly manual way of doing it, though it'd be faster than scanning the bottom of each page. It's probably too close to what you don't want to do, though.

Or you could check with the scripters here and see if it's possible to locate a system-inserted hyphen as the last character on a page and then apply the suppress hyphenation to that one hyphen.

I don't know enough about the scripting to know if there's a way to detect the bottom of the page, though, or if there's a difference between a hyphen you've inserted versus one that the system decides you need. I'd think there ought to be since if pagination changes enough to move the hyphenated word away from being too far right to be kept on one line, you'd want the hyphen removed.