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Need to use Hyphenation based on OXFORD Dictionary

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
December 30, 2022
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Hi Friends,

I need to use hyphenation based on OXFORD dictionay in InDesign. Kindly advice or do the needful.

Thanks in advance

Peter Kahrel

Community Expert

> Is the Oxford hyphenation really different from that used in the English: UK Hunspell dictionary that is used if you set your language to English: UK in your paragraph styles?

Yes, it is. Many differences. The default hyphenation used looks to be based on Collins, and Oxford (Oxford University Press) uses different hyphenation points in many words.

> Kindly advice or do the needful.

You'll have to do the needful yourself: add words that aren't hyphenated correctly to the user dictionary as outlined in some posts, above. You'll see that initially you need to add quite a few words, but soon fewer and fewer additions are needed.

James Gifford—NitroPress

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Worth noting that for all its features and power, ID is not really a word processor. Hyphenation may straddle 'writing' and 'layout,' but a need this demanding and specific may be beyond its scope. Manual review and correction of hyphenation may be the only route.

Peter Kahrel

Community Expert

I disagree, James. Typesetting software should have a robust and reliable hyphenation module. It's certainly not beyond InDesign's scope.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

Is the Oxford hyphenation really different from that used in the English: UK Hunspell dictionary that is used if you set your language to English: UK in your paragraph styles? If it is I suspect there is not a lot that can be done other than try to find a dictionary file to be added per the web link. I would start withthe folks who publish the Oxford dictionary, but my guess is there is none.

If you see words that are hyphenated incorrectly you can add corrections to the user dictionary.

Michael Bullo

Community Expert

Mac: InDesign > Preferences > Dictionary
Windows: Edit > Preferences > Dictionary

This section includes the link "More Dictionary Info..." which takes you to this Adobe page...

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/spell-checking-language-dictionaries.html

Perhaps this will help.

M

Mark27515456ugp5

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Mac: InDesign > Preferences > Dictionary
Windows: Edit > Preferences > Dictionary

This section includes the link "More Dictionary Info..." which takes you to this Adobe page...
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/spell-checking-language-dictionaries.html/CredibleBH.com

Perhaps this will help.

By @Michael Bullo

Hello, @Michael Bullo

I was try many time but work any other option?
Need help it's urgent my work is pending..

Thanks,

Eric Dumas

Community Expert

remenber to change preferences after starting the software but before opening any document or create a new one.

Change the preferences then to make them permanent for all new files created after.

When opening an old document, the 'old' preferences will apply.

Also, check your paragraph styles to make sure they are set to English UK.

There are more details here to download additional dictionaries/hyphenation rules, but no references to Oxford

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