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Some months ago something changed with the automatic hypnation of text in my documents. Some words that are hypnated get a hyphen at the end of the first part (normal), but also at the beginning of the second part that is placed on the next line. Now I have to manualy adjust this. I don't understand why this started and how to fix it. Thanks for your suggestions.
Try to change your dictionary hyphenation to Proximity:
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What is the language of your text? In both British and American English hyphens are only at the end of the first line:
... so-
called ...
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The language is Dutch. Also one hypen is needed. But when a word already has an hyphen like 'Oost-Azië' this happens:
...Oost-
-Azië...
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Could you please send some part of this project in .indd? I'll have a look.
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Try to change the language to "Dutch: old rules", and then to "Dutch: 2005 reform" (don't know the right names). Check this out as it worked for me:
old rules:
2005 reform:
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That looks promising! But sadly I don't have the same result here...
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Try to change your dictionary hyphenation to Proximity:
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Yesss! I've tried that options before with no result. But today for some reason the problem is gone.
Thanks a lot.
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That's great. Cheers!
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Hi M.M.J.B82A,
I see the same issue when I open your InDesign document with my German InDesign 2021.
And I also was in trouble to find the right settings so that the hyphenation of the text is the result you are expecting with the applied language for the text: Dutch: 2005 Reform.
Here the stages of my little journey:
[1] Opened an IDML file of your document, ignored the missing font warnings and headed for Preferences > Dictionary.
As you can see from my German InDesign the language of the dictionary is set to German: 2006 Reform. This setting is not specific to a document, it is for the application.
What is a specific preference for a document is Hyphenation. And that is set to Hunspell.
The word Oost-Azië is selected in the text and the hyphenation apparantly is the wrong one. The selected text is formatted with Language: Dutch: 2005 Reform
[2] If I now change my document related preferences for Hyphenation to Proximity, nothing changes. To be absolutely sure about this I answered my changes to the preferences with OK, opened them again and then took the screenshot:
[3] Hm. Now I was unsure what to do next and tried the following:
I changed the language of Hyphenation back to Hunspell and changed the language of the dictionary to Dutch: 2005 Reform. Still hyphenation of the word Oost-Azië was wrong:
[4] The next step was to change hyphenation back again to Proximity:
And now, finally, hyphenation of the selected word changed to the expected result!
And that without closing the Preferences panel with OK:
The crazy thing: After I had the right result with text hyphenation I could switch back the language of the dictionary to German: 2006 Reform without changing the hyphenation again.
So the expected hyphenation needed a kick by changing the language of the dictionary at least once. Together with a change of hyphenation to Proximity in the Preferences.
This behavior could hardly fell under category "good user experience".
That's a bug.
FWIW: As a last step I saved the document with a new name, closed it, opened it again and hyphenation of Oost-Azië was still alright.
Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( ACP )
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And just a remark about the hyphenation behavior with language "Dutch" ( not Dutch: 2005 Reform ).
With language "Dutch" it is alright, that after the hyphen the dash is maintained in the next line of text:
Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( ACP )
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Hi Laubener, thats interesting! I admire your determination to get to the bottom of this problem. It indead looks like a bug, because I've tried several parts of the solution before. Thanks for your time and the fact that I feel less incompetent in fixing it.