RM f/g Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 Here’s a little something to improve the Dutch language setting. It may apply to other languages as well, who knows. It's present in inDesign, but not yet in Publisher, I noticed. With hyphenation, the diaeresis is dropped if it comes immediately after the hyphen. In this case, the diaeresis is superfluous because the hyphen already indicates that a new syllable follows. ruïne ru- ine deltaïsch delta- isch creëren cre- eren Quote Macbook Pro mid 2015, 16 GB, double barrel: MacOS Mojave + Affinity 1 (+ Adobe’s CS6)/ MacOS Monterey + Affinity 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 English used to do that too, when words like cooperate, reentrant, etc. were spelled with a diaeresis on the second vowel. We seem to have "solved" this problem by dropping the use of diaeresis in general Your suggestion seems like a good one. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted February 8, 2023 Share Posted February 8, 2023 I didn't know this about Dutch or English! This sounds like a good feature request. I went looking for more information and found this interesting paper from OpenOffice: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb27-1/tb86nemeth.pdf Page 2 has a good table that lists similar issues for other languages. For example, Zucker in German because Zuk- ker. The document goes on to provide the hyphenation patterns required to support these exceptions. walt.farrell 1 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.0.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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