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sebdea
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March 6, 2014
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Turn OFF hyphenation for some words

  • March 6, 2014
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Hi there,

I have a Spanish project in FrameMaker 10. Will not be a single document but more documents during a month or two. One of the major issue is Hyphenation. According to client's guidelines I MUST turn Hyphenation ON. However, the client also requested to look for some words (i.e. vehiculo) that MUST not be Hyphenated. So far all I can think of was to search using FIND the entire document for vehiculo and then applying the command turn hyphenation OFF for this word (Esc n s). Each document has 170+ pages. It is a waste of time to make it manually even using FIND option.

Therefore is there a way to:

1. Either using FIND/REPLACE to set all words in document containing "culo" not to be hyphenated even with Hyphenation ON?

2. Or using the same command (FIND) to look for any "culo" at the beginning of a row and automatically, or manually, apply ESC n s?

Vehiculo is just an example as I am sure there are many other words in Spanish containing "culo". Therefore I have to make sure none of those words are hyphenated improperly. I know what this means in Spanish and I apologize if some people might find this offending. It is not my idea to offend but to find a solution to this issue. Normally, I think that FM, InDesign and any other text editing software may have those things set in their Dictionary.

Thank you in advance.

Warm regards,

Sebastian

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Correct answer Arnis Gubins

Hi Sebastian,

You can create a custom, "personal" dictionary that specifies the desird hyphenation rules for those words. The FM dicitionary file is just a simple text file (you can use Notepad to create it).

1. The first line must be:

<MakerDictionary 3.0>

2. After that each word entry has the hyphens placed where the word should break. If no hyphen is to be used in the word, then the hyphen should be the first entry on the line.

Note: every line must contain a hyphen somewhere or FM will crash!

Example:

<MakerDictionary 3.0>

work-flow

auto-save

-FrameMaker

-vehiculo

... etc.

3. The order is not important.

4. You can then import this file into your personal dictionary using the Spell Checker. Click on the Dictionaries button:

6. Then select the Personal Dictionary and from the dropdown on th right select "Import Dictionary..."

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Arnis Gubins
Arnis GubinsCorrect answer
Inspiring
March 6, 2014

Hi Sebastian,

You can create a custom, "personal" dictionary that specifies the desird hyphenation rules for those words. The FM dicitionary file is just a simple text file (you can use Notepad to create it).

1. The first line must be:

<MakerDictionary 3.0>

2. After that each word entry has the hyphens placed where the word should break. If no hyphen is to be used in the word, then the hyphen should be the first entry on the line.

Note: every line must contain a hyphen somewhere or FM will crash!

Example:

<MakerDictionary 3.0>

work-flow

auto-save

-FrameMaker

-vehiculo

... etc.

3. The order is not important.

4. You can then import this file into your personal dictionary using the Spell Checker. Click on the Dictionaries button:

6. Then select the Personal Dictionary and from the dropdown on th right select "Import Dictionary..."

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Community Expert
Winfried RengCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 6, 2014

Hi,

Only a short warning:

"Import" replaces the current dictionary content.

"Merge" adds the new content to the current dictionary.

Best regards

Winfried

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sebdeaAuthor
Inspiring
March 12, 2014

Thank you both for your precious time and for your great solutions. It worked. I appreciate your quick response and valuable help.

Sincerely yours,

Sebastian

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