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From: D.M. Procida on 24 Jun 2010 13:50 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, but a hostage to fortune. Daniele
From: Elliott Roper on 24 Jun 2010 14:08 In article <1jkltie.ut56ws1039pqeN%real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk>, 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, but a hostage to fortune. > Typical H&J behaviour. If it ain't in the dictionary hit the rules. Setting narrow justified measures, you gotta live with it. Otherwise, turn hyphenation off and/or set ragged right. If you must set justified, invest in LaTeX or InDesign. Pages and Word can't hack it. Both of those can minimise horribleness over a whole paragraph. They avoid rivers too. -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248
From: D.M. Procida on 24 Jun 2010 15:11 Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> wrote: > In article > <1jkltie.ut56ws1039pqeN%real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk>, > 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, but a hostage to fortune. > > > Typical H&J behaviour. If it ain't in the dictionary hit the rules. > Setting narrow justified measures, you gotta live with it. Otherwise, > turn hyphenation off and/or set ragged right. It wasn't right-aligned to begin with. And I can live without it fortunately. > If you must set justified, invest in LaTeX or InDesign. Pages and Word > can't hack it. Both of those can minimise horribleness over a whole > paragraph. They avoid rivers too. I am becoming so used to Pages that I'd hate to have to get to grips with something else. I'm on page 50 or so of a complex document, and thanks to Pages most of the formatting is rule-based and doesn't require my intervention, apart form a few nuisances. Daniele
From: Elliott Roper on 24 Jun 2010 16:55 In article <1jklxbu.oase7b1qkrz54N%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: > > > In article > > <1jkltie.ut56ws1039pqeN%real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk>, > > D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > Pages's hyphenation seems a bit over-eager. <snip> > > I am becoming so used to Pages that I'd hate to have to get to grips > with something else. > > I'm on page 50 or so of a complex document, and thanks to Pages most of > the formatting is rule-based and doesn't require my intervention, apart > form a few nuisances. 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." Text and Document Inspectors also provide per paragraph and global hyphenation settings respectively. -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248
From: Bob Whoredrope on 25 Jun 2010 02:27
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:50:35 +0100, D.M. Procida 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, but a hostage to fortune. > That's ridiculous. Everyone knows it's "orchestra". The stupid thing doesn't even do a spell check. -- "You, Sir, will burn in hell when you die for the evil you have done on Earth to date." Rowland McDonnell - E-mail to J.J. - January 2010 |