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• • June 18, 2014 at 11:06 am #69051
    AaronA

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    I’m working on a German document. Text is set to use dictionary ‘German: 2006 Reform’. When I make custom edits to the User Dictionary (Edit/Spelling/User Dictionary) in order to set new hyphenation points, the changes never ‘take’. Ie I add the custom-hyphenated word to the user dictionary, click ‘Done’, return to the doc, and nothing changes. I have to enter discretionary hyphens by hand for every word I want changed, which I’m sure will cause problems down the road. Das ist nicht gut!

    I have checked the paragraph-level hyphenation settings, and they are not overriding the changes I want to make.

    Any tips?

  • June 18, 2014 at 11:44 am #69053
    Dwayne Harris

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    When you finish typing the word in the box, you have to click “add.” Then you click done when finished. Sounds like you were clicking “done” before you “added” it.

  • June 18, 2014 at 2:05 pm #69059
    AaronA

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    Thanks Dwayne, but I did add it beforehand.

    • June 18, 2014 at 2:34 pm #69060
      Dwayne Harris

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      Hmm. How are your dictionary preferences set up (go to “preferences” and then to “dictionary.”

      There are two boxes (one for merge user dictionary into document & the other is recompose all stories when modified).

      Are those checked or unchecked.

      I’m don’t remember, but I think (and may be wrong) that if you add to user dictionary while the document is open, you either need to merge it or recompose. Not sure which.

      Additionally–once you add it, and say done: Does the word still appear in your dictionary? If so you may need to recompose or merge.

      Also be sure that your word was set for “case sensitive.”

      And be sure to select “user dictionary and document” in your dictionary preferences.

      Also, since the document was open when you added to your dictionary, maybe it’s possible that it won’t recompose or merge until you close it and reopen?

  • June 18, 2014 at 11:42 pm #69074
    AaronA

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    Hi Dwayne,
    Good ideas all. Wish this forum made it easy to add a screenshot, but I see no option for that so I won’t show you my settings.

    I do see that all the words I entered are visible in the dictionary. I haven’t checked ‘case sensitive’ since I want the hyphenation to apply regardless of case.

    I don’t know anything about ‘merge user dictionary into document’, but it sounds like something I wouldn’t want: I’m happy for the docs to refer to an outside, linked dictionary file. (Akin to linked graphics rather than embedded.)

    I’ve opened InDesign numerous times since adding the words and it doesn’t seem to change.

    However… I just noticed that my Hyphenation settings in the paragraphs are set to no break across columns. That may have accounted for the problem — will verify this tomorrow!

    Cheers.

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