Pyanepsion Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Hello everyone, The program does not behave as expected when you have to use no hyphenation. It produces a line break on some characters when it should write the text by the mile. To quote one of the most frequent uses, quoting a long link, the program makes a line break after the / character when it should not. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zicht_op_de_Arc_de_Triomphe_du_Carrousel_in_Parijs_Vue_de_l%27Arc_de_Triomph_de_la_Place_du_Carrousel_%C3%A0_Paris_(titel_op_object)_Kleine_gezichten_op_Parijs_(serietitel),_RP-P-1953-406.jpg There are many other examples where the text content should not be interrupted by the insertion of a line break character. This dysfunction is, of course, a major problem. Let us specify that this problem is not encountered in Word, QuarkXpress, and other commonly used DTP or word processing tools. hyphenation.mp4 Quote 6 cœurs, 12 processus - Windows 11 pro - 4K - DirectX 12 - Suite universelle Affinity (Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo). ███ Mais je vous le demande, peut-on imaginer une police sans sérifs ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VolkerMB Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 @Pyanepsion Hi, I can confirm this. However, is it relevant? Usually, if you want to include a hyperlink to your document you use the hyperlink panel. Here, no line break of any sort is inserted and the hyperlink does work just fine in the final PDF. So, the display of the link to the human eye is not that relevant. Indeed, it is a different story with pasting such long URLs in a document without setting a hyperlink explicitly. Then it comes down to the guesswork by any pdf reader what the correct URL might be. And - in case of Acrobat - it fails. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyanepsion Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 @VolkerMBDTP software is primarily used to create files for printing! It is often necessary, especially in scientific, legal, academic texts, etc., to write the entire link in one piece. I’ve given an example of a link, because it’s the easiest to reproduce and understand, but the problem is more general: Affinity Publisher doesn’t handle the lack of hyphenation correctly. Quote 6 cœurs, 12 processus - Windows 11 pro - 4K - DirectX 12 - Suite universelle Affinity (Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo). ███ Mais je vous le demande, peut-on imaginer une police sans sérifs ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PMan Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 If you select the text, go to the paragraph tab and select Auto-hyphenation ON, the result will give you a better result With Auto-hyphenation OFF, Publisher has to try to fit the whole 'word' between backslashes onto a line [the word in this case can be quite long because individual words are being concatenated into long phrases by the underscore symbol _ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyanepsion Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 @PManThis is a very bad solution. It adds a hyphen here which, in this example, makes the link invalid. Quote 6 cœurs, 12 processus - Windows 11 pro - 4K - DirectX 12 - Suite universelle Affinity (Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo). ███ Mais je vous le demande, peut-on imaginer une police sans sérifs ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyanepsion Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 @Hens 13 minutes ago, Pyanepsion said: It is often necessary, especially in scientific, legal, academic texts, etc., to write the entire link in one piece. I’ve given an example of a link, because it’s the easiest to reproduce and understand, but the problem is more general: Affinity Publisher doesn’t handle the lack of hyphenation correctly. Quote 6 cœurs, 12 processus - Windows 11 pro - 4K - DirectX 12 - Suite universelle Affinity (Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo). ███ Mais je vous le demande, peut-on imaginer une police sans sérifs ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyanepsion Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 Of course, sometimes you can create a PDF link or use a shortened link. This is not allowed at all in some situations (I have given some examples, there are many more). So the point here is not to get around this big bug, but really, really, really to get continuous text when necessary. Quote 6 cœurs, 12 processus - Windows 11 pro - 4K - DirectX 12 - Suite universelle Affinity (Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo). ███ Mais je vous le demande, peut-on imaginer une police sans sérifs ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VolkerMB Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Hmm, I'm not convinced that we really deal with a problem here. If your document is meant for printing then it is no fun at all for users to read these long URLs or even to type them in a browser to get to the ressource. A shortend ULR would serve the user better. But if the original URL is needed under all circumsdances (e.g. legal reasons) putting it in a footnote/endnote (haha, good joke ;-)) with manually set line breaks could be the better option. The average user is capabale of reading them properly (as far as my eperience goes). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Isn't it more of a missing function, than a bug? What practical impact does having the line split have? It's still readable by a human, and in electronic form will even properly copy/paste. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyanepsion Posted December 22, 2021 Author Share Posted December 22, 2021 17 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Isn't it more of a missing function, than a bug? I think it’s a big design bug. By default, the text is necessarily provided in continuous. Someone had to decide that there could be a line break after a certain character, here the slash (/) in the case of hyphenated text. It was also obviously someone who decided ‘for our own good’ that text without hyphenation should still have hyphenation. It is probably the same person who decided, without further thought, that the apostrophe (') should be replaced by a space and then a double quotation mark ( "). Not to imagine for a moment that the software has an international vocation and therefore not only the English typographic rules is obviously very amateurish. Quote 6 cœurs, 12 processus - Windows 11 pro - 4K - DirectX 12 - Suite universelle Affinity (Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo). ███ Mais je vous le demande, peut-on imaginer une police sans sérifs ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted December 23, 2021 Staff Share Posted December 23, 2021 I've logged an issue for this as I cant see a way to disable the line breaking and I think we should be able to Pyanepsion 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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