Hyphenation not working in Dutch

[Vincent Steinmetz]

I'm a book designer, used to work with Indesign. ButI want be a good sport, so I purchased Affinity Publisher (along with Photo and Designer) as soon as it came on the market. I have acquinted  myself with Publisher and it works really fine.

One thing: hyphenation in the Dutch language is not working. What to do?

[Dan C]

Hi Vincent Steinmetz

We don't natively support Dutch hyphenation, however you can add your own dictionaries into the app. Could you please confirm, are you using Windows or Mac? This changes the installation procedure for dictionaries.

[Vincent Steinmetz]

Hi Dan,

I'm using a Mac Pro 2013 with Mojave 10.14.5. Please let me know.

Best Vincent

[Dan C]

Thanks for that Vincent

To install a dictionary on Mac from the Affinity Store or Mac App Store:

 

On Mac we use system spelling. Spelling dictionaries may already be available but not active. Check by navigating to:

System Preferences>Keyboard>Text>Spelling>at the bottom of the drop list "Set up…”

Then tick the required language if available and restart Publisher.

 

If the required language is not available, standard Hunspell dictionaries can be installed for the system spelling to use. These consist of two files, one names xx_XX.dic and one named xx_XX.aff. Copy the .dic and.aff files to the ~/Library/Spelling folder.

 

(To navigate to this folder in Finder, one way is to select the ‘Go’ menu, press <Alt>, the Library folder will be made visible in the menu, then select the subdirectory ‘Spelling’.)

 

Having done this the language should become available to be selected in System Preferences>Keyboard>Text>Spelling as above. Once checked here they will become available in Publisher. Any changes to dictionaries require an App restart.

 

To install a Hyphenation dictionary on Mac from the Affinity Store or Mac App Store:

 

On Mac Hyphenation dictionaries can be installed in a similar way but the must be installed in a subfolder. Navigate to

 

~/Library/Spelling/

 

as above and make a subfolder with a name in the format

 

xx-XX (ie pl_PL)

 

The dictionary comes as a single file with a name in the format hyph_xx_XX.dic. This file should be copied to the subfolder.

Now restart Affinity Publisher and the hyphenation dictionary should show.

[thomaso]

This thread possibly might be interesting, too:

 

[Arivd]

On 7/1/2019 at 5:08 PM, Dan C said:

To install a Hyphenation dictionary on Mac from the Affinity Store or Mac App Store:

Where can such a Hyphenation dactionary be found?

[Komatös]

Hi @Arivd

You'll find extra dictionaries here: https://github.com/LibreOffice/dictionaries

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Arivd said:

Where can such a Hyphenation dactionary be found?

Please see the FAQ article on adding dictionaries. There are specific instructions for downloading from the GitHub site in the first post of that FAQ, which must be followed exactly. Or there are pointers to the files which can be downloaded directly in the second post. It's easier to download them that way, but you'll still need to use the first post to setup the folder structure that is required.