Problem with Polish hyphenation dictionary on Mac

[Boodzik]

Hi,

I've tried to install Polish hyphenation dictionary in Afinity Publisher. I've done everything according to this

https://affinity.help/publisher/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Text/hyphenationInstalling.html?title=Installing%20hyphenation%20dictionaries

and this

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?%2Ftopic%2F98911-faq-how-do-i-add-additional-dictionaries-to-affinity-publisher%2F&fbclid=IwAR1M2YbrQz9dYRnegS-uLWq-eBYYWU1wCQb9Do_WUpDNptbsuygluR1WzRQ

tutorials. I even installed Chrome on Mac to make sure that I'm downloading the actual .dic file and not the .html one. Publisher shows Polish language in hyphenation options but it does not split words in a text box.

Thanks in advance for your help :)

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @Boodzik.

First, please open the hyphenation dictionary in a text editor and give us a screenshot of the first few lines. Also a screenshot from Finder showing the directory you've installed it in.

Next, please make sure you've enabled automatic hyphenation in the Hyphenation settings in the Paragraph panel, and also show us the Hyphenation settings there.

Also, please put the cursor in a text frame where you think hyphenation should be working, and verify that the Spelling Language shows as Polish in the Character panel where the cursor is positioned.

[Boodzik]

Hi @walt.farrell, thank you for a quick response

Here're screenshots from the text editor,

finder directory ("użytkownicy" is "users" and "biblioteki" is "library" in Polish),

the Character and Paragraph Panels

[walt.farrell]

Thanks. That setup looks good to me.

I see there are some hyphenated words, so I would guess that the basic function is working. However, I do not know Polish so I have no idea of which others should be hyphenated.

[Dan C]

Hi @Boodzik,

Welcome to the Affinity Forums

Similar to Walt, I can see this hyphenation dictionary has been successfully installed into Affinity Publisher - but unfortunately I too am not familiar with Polish so I could not comment on the hyphenation itself. This is controlled by the dictionary you have installed, so you may want to try a dictionary from another source.

Could you please expand on the issue you have with the current dictionary please?

Many thanks in advance!

[Boodzik]

@walt.farrell thanks, I don't know what kind of sorcery is this, but... now it works  It's probably because previously I named the folder pl_PL (as suggested by the Affinity help website  https://affinity.help/publisher/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Text/hyphenationInstalling.html?title=Installing hyphenation dictionaries). I've changed the name to pl-PL and it seems to work. Thank you for your support

Edited August 21, 2021 by Boodzik