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dtpspecial
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November 3, 2017
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Framemaker 12. Discretionary hyphenation not working

  • November 3, 2017
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Hello,

I have a document where I want to use discretionary hyphenation but when I enter one (CTL+ -) it does not hyphenate at the position chosen and causes surpression of hyphenation for the whole word.

Why?

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    barbara_a7746676
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    barbara_a7746676Community Expert
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    November 4, 2017

    Try checking your settings for Shortest Prefix and Shortest Suffix, and Shortest Word. Note that FrameMaker counts punctuation as letters when using hyphenation. For example, if a word that has a period or parenthesis those characters will be counted as letters in the Prefix/Suffix.

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    dtpspecialAuthor
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    November 4, 2017

    Thanks for the reply Barbara, no that isn't the problem, unfortunately.

    This is what appears with the standard hyphenation on

    And when I insert CTRL- in the two places I would prefer the hyphenation - "Patienten-positionierung" and "Kontakt-ansicht" it acts like a suppress hyphenation marker (ESC ns at start of word)

    the settings for hypenation are:

    The only other place I know to control line endings is the "Text Options" and I have checked them and can't see any problem. There are this.

    I can't think of any other place the CTRL- is controlled.

    This only happens in this set of documents so it is a setting somewhere.

    Thanks for any input you can offer.

    barbara_a7746676
    Community Expert
    barbara_a7746676Community Expert
    Community Expert
    November 4, 2017

    You're right that there is something in that particular document. I'm not able to reproduce the issue.

    All I can suggest are some general troubleshooting techniques. For example, you could save the file as MIF and then open the MIF in FrameMaker. Or, you could try File > Import Formats from your template.

    I haven't experienced the issue you're facing but on rare occasions, I've solved an issue by selecting everything in the document and pasting it into a brand new document, then re-importing the template. 

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