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October 3, 2017
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Find automatic hyphens

  • October 3, 2017
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Hi!

I've been searching the forums for a way to find automatic hyphens in a document, but the latest thread I've found is 4 years old, and the solutions seems to be a third party script. Does anyone know if there's been any improvements in this area?

I can search for nonbreaking hypens, en-dash, em-dash and discretionary hyphens, but not for the automatic ones.

(In the Swedish language composite words often have a completely different meaning than the two combined words and composite words are really common. There are also composite words that would look exactly the same as another word, where the other word isn't a composite, only distinguishable by context. Therefor, automatic hyphenation tend to end up in the wrong place and the ability to check that hyphens end up at the right place is really important.)

/Ludvig

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Jongware
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JongwareCommunity Expert
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October 3, 2017

The (admittedly "3rd party") scripts in How to find automatic hyphen?  still work just fine in a modern InDesign.

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    AustKomAuthor
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    October 3, 2017

    Thank you! Yes, I had some trouble with the links at first, but I got it to work now.

    /Ludvig

    Jongware
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    JongwareCommunity Expert
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    October 3, 2017

    Ah yes. The correct first link is Peter Kahrel -- Free script | Collect hyphenated words (http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/hyphens_collect.html).

      amaarora
      amaarora
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      October 3, 2017

      Hi,

      Did you try disabling automatic hyphenation? And then adding one wherever needed?

      I do not know of any way within InDesign to find automatic hyphens.

      -Aman

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        AustKomAuthor
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        October 3, 2017

        Hi,

        Thanks!

        I suppose that would be one way to do it, but I was hoping that Adobe might have added the possibility of finding automatic hyphens. It seems so illogical or counterintuitive to me that it's not a standard search option, but then again, that probably comes from me being Swedish.

        /Ludvig

        rob day
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        rob dayCommunity Expert
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        October 3, 2017
        It seems so illogical or counterintuitive to me that it's not a standard search option, but then again, that probably comes from me being Swedish.

        Auto Hyphens are not a selectable glyph, so even if there were an option to find them there wouldn't be a way to select and change. You would have to leave the F&C dialog and apply a no break, adjust the text flow, or change your preferences. As soon as the text reflows or the H&j preferences are changed all of the text would be re-hyphenated based on the preference rules.

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