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How to change hyphenation?

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
April 7, 2019
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Hello,

I notice that the hyphenation instructions in the help are not that helpful.

I have a text with Swedish set as language and I find a word with incorrect hyphenation in the FrameMaker dictionary.

Östafrika

is for some odd reason hyphenated as Östa-frika.

How can I change this (among many other similar issues). I see help on the forums about going to the spelling checker and then set "show hyphenation" and change > and then press learn, etc. But since the word is correctly spelt from the beginning, FM does not accept my suggestions.

So, how do I do?

Regards

Formatting and numbering

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Hi Jacob:

Did Winfried's suggestion work for you, or do you need additional assistance?

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

jjwiknerAuthor

Participant

Hello Barb and thanks Winfried,

however, unfortunately, it does not work. Even if I click learn and then rehyphenate document the issue remains.

I added the word in the spelling checker and press "Show Hyphenation". I correct according to normal Swedish (plenty of words in the Swedish dictionary have incorrect hyphenation) and Learn. But no reaction and retyping the word in the spell checker and pressing the "Show Hyphenation" shows the old settings again.

Manual insertion of a hyphen would not solve the issue as if I enter more text to the paragraph the added hyphen will be incorrect.

I have admin priviliges and should have write access to the dictionary.

Turning of hyphenation (Esc j n) would be a possible solution, but a pity that the dictionaries are not updated.

jjwiknerAuthor

Participant

Hmm,

I notice it works in some documents but not in others if that's of any value...

W

Winfried Reng

Community Expert

Hi,

Did you enter Östafrika in the Spelling Checker and clicked Show Hyphentation?

Did you then change the hyphens to something like Öst-afrika and click Learn?

Then this word is in the dictionary.

Now you also have to update the hyphenation in your document.

Click Dictionaries and then select Rehyphenate Document and click OK.

Then your document will hyphenate Östafrika as you had entered.

Otherwise you can also change the hyphenation manually. See here:

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/2019/using/index.html#t=using-framemaker-2019%2Ffrm_shortcuts_sh.html

Press CTRL+F and search for hyphen. You can suppress the hyphenation of a word or enter a discretionary hyphen.

Best regards

Winfried

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