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From: D.M. Procida on 25 Jun 2010 02:38 Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> wrote: > You probably already know this. > (from p 113 of Pages09_UserGuide.pdf) > "To turn hyphenation on or off for a word, click the word while holding > down the Control key, and then choose Never Hyphenate or Allow > Hyphenation from the shortcut menu. > Turning hyphenation on or off for a word will effect every instance of > that word in your document." In fact, in every instance of that word in every Pages document ever, including previously-created ones. Which could be a bit of a surprise. Daniele
From: The Older Gentleman on 25 Jun 2010 03:00 Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> wrote: > will effect Argh. -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes! Try Googling before asking a damn silly question. chateau dot murray at idnet dot com
From: Elliott Roper on 25 Jun 2010 06:01 In article <1jkmsw5.1ie3sjolms5x1N%real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk>, D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> wrote: > > > You probably already know this. > > (from p 113 of Pages09_UserGuide.pdf) > > "To turn hyphenation on or off for a word, click the word while holding > > down the Control key, and then choose Never Hyphenate or Allow > > Hyphenation from the shortcut menu. > > Turning hyphenation on or off for a word will effect every instance of > > that word in your document." > > In fact, in every instance of that word in every Pages document ever, > including previously-created ones. > > Which could be a bit of a surprise. Yikes! That /is/ brain-damaged. I now use Pages instead of Word, but I'd never use either when I need better than ransom note typography. -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248
From: Elliott Roper on 25 Jun 2010 06:04 In article <1jkmu7l.163az7z18aq072N%totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk>, The Older Gentleman <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> wrote: > > > will effect > > Argh. Argh indeed. Pasted from the Apple Pages Manual pdf. I feel sic -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248
From: Rowland McDonnell on 25 Jun 2010 14:35
D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > Pages's hyphenation seems a bit over-eager. > > It's happy to hyphenate words it doesn't - or I'd expect it not to - > know anything about. > > For example, it will hyphenate "Arkestra", if permitted, as Ark-estra or > Arkes-tra. Nice guess, I suppose, Looks right to me. > but a hostage to fortune. <cough> Umm. Not if it's done properly. Knuth's TeX project worked out how to create a set of hyphenation patterns for each language that defined the hyphenation rules so as to permit accurate hyphenation without having a special hyphenation dictionary. It's more likely to miss possible hyphenations than to give you an invalid one - and of course, you can build a word-based hyphenation dictionary for those words it gets wrong, and load it for all documents without any bother. So if Pages is using the public domain hyphenation algorithm that TeX was using in 1983 along with the Iforgetwhatlicencebutfree hyphenation patterns already produced for all the big-name languages, it'll be doing a good job. What's the betting that's not what Apple did? Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |