hyphenation

[René van Elst]

This may have been asked by someone else already. PagePlus offers hyphenation in Dutch, may I expect Publisher to do the same? I really need it...

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, René van Elst said:

This may have been asked by someone else already. PagePlus offers hyphenation in Dutch, may I expect Publisher to do the same? I really need it...

Publisher allows you to install your own spelling dictionaries and hyphenation dictionaries, and many additional dictionaries are available on the web already. You can look for dictionaries that are compatible with Hunspell, or start with the dictionaries made available for LibreOffice.

For example, the Dutch dictionaries available here should work. Just download hyph_nl_NL.dic, nl_NL.aff, and nl_NL.dic and place them in the "additional dictionaries" directory shown at the bottom of the Preferences, Tools dialog.

[Fixx]

Publisher tends to quit when I try to access finnish dictionaries. I guess those are not rightly formatted.

[mmoro]

My finnish hyphenation dictionary started with words "charset ISO8859-1". I looked those Hunspell-dictionaries and they have only "ISO8859-1" without word "charset". So I removed word "charset" and now Publisher is not crashing. Hyphenation is working, I think, but I have not tested deeply yet...

[Fixx]

Seems to work righto! Finnish dictionary is available here: 
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=66091

charset-text can be removed with any text editor (I used TextWrangler).

[Old Bruce]

1 hour ago, Fixx said:

... any text editor (I used TextWrangler).

Wow, been years (decades...?) since I used that, BBEdit is the replacement, a slightly limited set of tools for the 'free' version but more features than TextWrangler. Which is if memory serves a damned fine text editor.

[René van Elst]

On 12/26/2018 at 12:45 PM, walt.farrell said:

Publisher allows you to install your own spelling dictionaries and hyphenation dictionaries, and many additional dictionaries are available on the web already. You can look for dictionaries that are compatible with Hunspell, or start with the dictionaries made available for LibreOffice.

For example, the Dutch dictionaries available here should work. Just download hyph_nl_NL.dic, nl_NL.aff, and nl_NL.dic and place them in the "additional dictionaries" directory shown at the bottom of the Preferences, Tools dialog.

Thanks Walt, you have put me on the right track. I placed the Dutch dictionaries from Libre Office in a folder nl-NL within the folder C:/Program Files/Affinity/Publisher Public Beta/Resources/Dictionaries/ . That works!