Add own definitions to hyphenation dictionary

[mandrael]

Hi,

I followed the help how to install new dictionaries and added some own definitions, but they are ignored by Affinity Publisher (MacOS). Could anyone describe how to add own hyphenation definitions manually? Like ki1ne1sio1lo1gie?

I added the words below

# own definitions

ki1ne1sio1lo1gie

# Zusammengesetzte adverbiale Präfixe

.....

But it's completely ignored. I selected the hyphen dictionary in the signs menu

[walt.farrell]

My guess is that the entry isn't in the right format, or you didn't add it to the right file.

Which file did you update, and what do the surrounding entries look like?

[mandrael]

Hi,

I followed the Affinity Help section "Installing dictionaries for hyphenation":

1. downloaded the Austrian dictionary here: https://github.com/LibreOffice/dictionaries/tree/master/de (hyph_de_AT.dic)

2. saved it in ~/Library/Spelling/de_AT

3. the dictionary appeared in Publisher in the panel signs.

part of file with modification:

ISO8859-1
####################################################################################
# This is the hyphenation file "hyph_de_AT.dic" of the German dictionary           #
# according to the reform of 2006-08-01	(i.e. reformed or new spelling)            #
#                                                                                  #
# Language: German (de AT)                                                         #
#                                                                                  #
# Version:  2017-01-12                                                             #
#           New: using the COMPOUND feature for improved hyphenation               #
#           New: list with over 69,000 words and compounds by Karl Zeiler          #
#                                                                                  #
# Origin:   Based on the TeX hyphenation tables	"dehyphn.tex", revision level 31.  #
#           http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/hyphenation/dehyphn.tex       #
#           The TeX hyphenation tables are released under the LaTeX Project        #
#           Public License (LPPL)                                                  #
#                                                                                  #
# License:  OpenOffice.org Adaptions of this package are licensed under the        #
#           GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL 2 or later) and are under      #
#           Copyright by                                                           #
#                                                                                  #
# Authors:  conversion author: Marco Huggenberger <marco@by-night.ch>              #
#           revised conversion: Daniel Naber <naber@danielnaber.de>                #
#           improvements: Karl Zeiler <karl.zeiler@t-online.de>                    #
#                                                                                  #
# Please note, this dictionary is based on syllable matching patterns              #
# and thus should be suitable under other variations of German                     #
#                                                                                  #
# HYPH de DE hyph_de_DE                                                            #
# HYPH de AT hyph_de_AT                                                            #
# HYPH de CH hyph_de_CH                                                            #
####################################################################################

COMPOUNDLEFTHYPHENMIN 2
COMPOUNDRIGHTHYPHENMIN 2

# own definitions
ki1ne1sio1lo1gie
neu1ro1ener1get1ische
ki1ne1sio1loge
ki1ne1sio1login
aku1pres1sur

# Zusammengesetzte adverbiale Pr‰fixe
da1her
da1her1ab1
da1her1an1
da1her1auf1
da1her1aus1
da1her1ein1
da1her1nieder1
da1her1¸ber1
da1her1um1
da1her1unter1
da1hin1
[...]

 

I also tried to add the custom entries in the Affinity package for testing purposes, but they were ignored. I would be important to have hyphenation rules for words Affinity doesn't know. Do you have any ideas what went wrong?

Best, Michael

[walt.farrell]

Thanks.

You might try adding them in the correct location alphabetically.

[mandrael]

I also tried that (ignoring the "1"s within the words). Without success. Did you already succeeded in adding own words to the Affinity Publisher hyphenation? Perhaps there is another way? In InDesign e.g. there is a menu item in "Edit" to add own hyphenations.

[mandrael]

I found the issue. It wasn't the hyphenation dictionary itself, but the hyphenation restrictions in paragraph. The first one was "Max consecutive hyphens", when I set it to 4 the hyphenation of the custom word was done at the correct position. The second one was "Paragraph end zone" and "Column end zone". Both were set to a high number. I reduced to 10 mm and the last word, which also was that new custom one, was hyphenated correctly.