How to prevent hyphenation of a specific word?

[pomme27]

I know how to set hyphenation rules in View > Studio > Paragraph per the attached image. But is there a way to mark a specific word so that it will never be auto-hyphenated by Affinity Publisher? For example, let's say I'm ok with hyphenation that creates 2-letter syllables (such as "hu-man"), but I never want the word "woman" to be hyphenated. Thx

 

 

[walt.farrell]

45 minutes ago, pomme27 said:

but I never want the word "woman" to be hyphenated.

That may be a bad example, as I don't think Publisher hyphenates "woman"

But if it does, or for some other word, you could assign the "no break" attribute to the word (highlight it, select that attribute in the Character studio panel, or assign a Character text style with that attribute).

[Fixx]

or you can place discretionary hyphen in front of the word. That is cmd-shift-hyphen in mac keyboard.

But, it is all manual. Maybe you can find-replace specific words with no-break attribute?

[walt.farrell]

5 hours ago, Fixx said:

or you can place discretionary hyphen in front of the word. That is cmd-shift-hyphen in mac keyboard.

But, it is all manual. Maybe you can find-replace specific words with no-break attribute?

Thanks, Fixx. I tried the discretionary hyphen approach but apparently my test case was too simple to have that work properly. It's good to have confirmation that my memory was correct

And yes, Find/Replace would be able to find specific words and give them the no-break attribute.

[Daniel Gibert]

On 4/27/2020 at 9:07 AM, Fixx said:

or you can place discretionary hyphen in front of the word. That is cmd-shift-hyphen in mac keyboard.

But, it is all manual. Maybe you can find-replace specific words with no-break attribute?

Super thank you for the tip Fixx. I'm working with text in Basque language, which does not have an hyphenation dictionary and uses the Spanish one. In basque there are three letter combinations that are not breakable (ts, tx and tz) and that does not exist in Spanish hyphenation rules. It was a pain in the… mouse to manually search and re-hyphen it one by one. Search and replace made it perfectly with no-break attribute!!! even searching only for the two letters (no whole word needed)

On InDesign I used GREP styles to detect it automatically on the go. On Publisher there is no similar option (for now I hope) , but this will serve fine. So thank you very much again. You saves me hours of work.

[Josan]

Hi. My english is very limited, sorry.

Solution for hyphenation in Basque (Euskera):

1. https://affinity.help/publisher/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Text/hyphenationInstalling.html?title=Installing hyphenation dictionaries
2. https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/xuxen-iv-basque-eu-eu-es-eu-fr-spell-checker-for-libreoffice
3. Rename the folder with the name "eu" (without the quotes)

Today I found this solution and it seems to work fine.