Manual hyphenation in Affinity Publisher

[TeresaPelka]

Hi, I'm making a PDF of a historic text and keeping the word layout, for my translation to be easy to compare with the original. Automatic hyphenation cannot do the thing, and all manual hyphenation shows as error.

I have the necessary dictionaries installed, en_US.aff, en_US.dic, and hyph_en_US.dic: I have them linked from Publisher Settings, C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Common\2.0\Dictionaries.

Character is set to  en_US for spelling and hyphenation, typography Latin Auto/ Default (the setting does not influence the hyphenation problem).

Soft hyphens do not work, word division remains marked as error.

Text is linked and flows, full blue.

[Old Bruce]

8 minutes ago, TeresaPelka said:

Hi, I'm making a PDF of a historic text and keeping the word layout, for my translation to be easy to compare with the original. Automatic hyphenation cannot do the thing, and all manual hyphenation shows as error.

Have you tried using Discretionary Hyphens? In my opinion they are misnamed as "Soft Hyphens".

[walt.farrell]

12 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

In my opinion they are misnamed as "Soft Hyphens".

Affinity is using the official Unicode terminology, so you would need to take that up with the standards body
https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=00AD

[Old Bruce]

45 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Affinity is using the official Unicode terminology, so you would need to take that up with the standards body 

They set up a special spam folder for me after I began complaining to them about their inclusion of Emojis. 

This is a hyphen -.

This is a "soft" hyphen ~, see how it is bendy.

[TeresaPelka]

2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Affinity is using the official Unicode terminology, so you would need to take that up with the standards body
https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=00AD

Found the "combination" finally Ctrl+Shfit+Alt+-

Thank you for the clue.

1 hour ago, Old Bruce said:

They set up a special spam folder for me after I began complaining to them about their inclusion of Emojis. 

This is a hyphen -.

This is a "soft" hyphen ~, see how it is bendy.

I absolutely agree it's wavey cute, but my keyboard does not produce it with Ctrl+Shift+- (and there was a tip somewhere to join that with another thing, which did not work, so I came here); but thank you for bringing up the shape. : )

[Old Bruce]

17 hours ago, TeresaPelka said:

I absolutely agree it's wavey cute, but my keyboard does not produce it with Ctrl+Shift+- (and there was a tip somewhere to join that with another thing, which did not work, so I came here); but thank you for bringing up the shape. : )

Actually I was joking. That is an Accent called a Tilde. Used in Spanish and Portugese. A lot of the keyboards have it at the upper right Left before the 1 on the number row of keys.

EDIT to fix the location. Thanks jmwellborn.

Edited December 31, 2023 by Old Bruce

[R C-R]

14 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

That is an Accent called a Tilde. Used in Spanish and Portugese.

The tilde is also frequently used to indicate an approximation, like ~20 minutes or ~15 miles.

[jmwellborn]

@Old Bruce Am I being picky? My keyboards have the tilde on the upper left, next to the 1 key. Also here on my iPad. Anyway, best wishes for a Happy New Year!

[TeresaPelka]

15 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

Actually I was joking. That is an Accent called a Tilde. Used in Spanish and Portugese. A lot of the keyboards have it at the upper right before the 1 on the number row of keys..

 

22 minutes ago, R C-R said:

The tilde is also frequently used to indicate an approximation, like ~20 minutes or ~15 miles.

I hope these are not in attempt to waive the "wavey cute" definition; and in dictionary projects, such wavey cutes are used too; and in Wikipedia.

Happy New Year, everyone. : ) 

[PaoloT]

On 12/30/2023 at 10:06 PM, Old Bruce said:

This is a hyphen -.

This is a "soft" hyphen ~, see how it is bendy.

And this is a hard hyphen: "—".

("Hey! This is a forum for families!")