Line-break system

[elenaa63749376]

Does anyone know if there is another line-break system apart from Hunspell that can be uploaded (even if it's fee paying), one that is closer to British English line-break systems (i.e. etymological).

[Peter Kahrel · Accepted solution]

You can select Proximity in InDesign's Preferences window, that's Adobe's alternative to Hunspell. And make sure you set English-UK in your paragraph and/or character styles. But there's no single British English word division system. For example, Collins and Oxford University Press use different word-break points in many words.

If words are not broken the way you want, add them to your user dictionary. At first you'll find you're adding a fair number of words in each book/project, but as you go along the number of exceptions you add becomes much smaller very quickly.

English word division is not etymological, by the way, it's a combination of etymology, morphology, word stress, and what-not. Black magic and alchemy. That's why you have special spelling dictionaries with hyphenation and word division indicated.

Peter

[elenaa63749376]

Thank you! Do yo know the difference between (pros and cons of ) Hunspell and Proximity?

[Peter Kahrel]

No, not really. I never used Hunspell. I'm sure that others can tell you.

[Derek Cross]

Peter, are you the legendary InDesign scripter?

[hammer0909]

He sure is Derek! Scripter extraordinaire!

[Derek Cross]

Respect!

[Mike Witherell]

Hunspell has a design advantage over the older Proximity. It can grow as words are coined into the language. Proximity is a set dictionary list that hasn't changed for a number of years.

The main thing is to make paragraph styles wherein the language is specified: and there is a different choice between British English, American English, Canadian English, etc. These differences will affect hyphenation in some cases.

Where a user disagrees with hyphenation is an occasion to add a word to the user dictionary, and we define syllable break preferences by typing ~ characters where we prefer the break. Read about the user dictionary in InDesign's online help system.

(Greetings Derek and Peter-the-legendary!)