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Rogerio5C09
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March 14, 2024
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Turn off hyphenation except in stories that contain hyphenated words

  • March 14, 2024
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Hi everyone,

Is it possible to adapt the script below, so that it turns off hyphenation except for stories that contain hyphenated words? Basically, if all the story in a text frame is hyphenated (true), the script should turn it off (false) and ignore those text frames that contain hyphenated words.

var doc = app.activeDocument;

var stories = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().texts[0].hyphenation = false;
try{
var stories = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().cells.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().hyphenation = false;
}catch(e){}

var PStyle = app.activeDocument.allParagraphStyles;  

for ( p = 1; p < PStyle.length; p++) PStyle

.hyphenation = false;


Thanks in advance,
Rogerio

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    Correct answer m1b

    That's correct! 🙂


    @Rogerio5C09 well I'm not sure what you're doing, but it sounds interesting. And I think this script will help.

    - Mark

    /**
 * Turn off hyphenation in any Story that has
 * every paragraph with hyphenation turned on.
 * @author m1b
 * @discussion https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/turn-off-hyphenation-except-in-stories-that-contain-hyphenated-words/m-p/14491538
 */
function main() {

    var doc = app.activeDocument,
        stories = doc.stories.everyItem().getElements();

    for (var i = 0, paras; i < stories.length; i++) {
        hyphenation = stories[i].paragraphs.everyItem().hyphenation;
        if (allTrue(hyphenation))
            stories[i].paragraphs.everyItem().hyphenation = false;
    }

};
app.doScript(main, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, 'Manage hyphenation');


/**
* Returns true when all booleans are true.
* @param {Array<Boolean>} bools - array of booleans.
* @returns {Boolean}
*/
function allTrue(bools) {

    for (var i = 0; i < bools.length; i++)
        if (true !== bools[i])
            return false;

    return true;

};

    1 reply

    m1b
    Community Expert
    m1bCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 14, 2024

    Hi @Rogerio5C09, so another way to say what you want is: to turn off hyphenation in every paragraph except where turning it off would change the line-breaks? Is that correct?

    - Mark

    R
    Rogerio5C09Author
    Inspiring
    March 14, 2024

    Hi @m1b, thanks for checking! 🙂

    Please turn off hyphenation in every paragraph in all stories/text frames that is set as "Hyphenate".


    For those stories that contain hyphenated paragraphs among non-hyphenated ones, leave them as they are.

    Would it be possible by any chance?

    Thanks,
    Rogerio'

    m1b
    Community Expert
    m1bCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 14, 2024

    So if I select all the text of a story, and the Hyphenate checkbox is ticked you want the script to turn hyphenation off in that story, but if it is indeterminate (the hyphen in the checkbox) then don't do anything?

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