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• • March 21, 2018 at 11:51 am #102550
    Clark Kenyon

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    Is there a way of setting up a paragraph style so that ID will not hyphenate a word that already has a hyphen in it, e.g., a compound word?

  • March 21, 2018 at 1:42 pm #102552
    Anonymous

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  • March 21, 2018 at 2:59 pm #102566
    Graham Park

    Member

    Will this work for you?
    Add a GREP to the style to find words with a Hyphen in them and add a no break character style

    Apply Style
    No Break
    To Text
    \w+\-\w+

    • March 21, 2018 at 3:09 pm #102570
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      Graham–that looks great (so simple). I normally just search for hyphens and replace with hyphen followed by a discretionary hyphen. I like your GREP style.

      One question–but the line can break after the hyphen, right? For example: “extra-virgin olive oil” will break after “extra-“?

      Asking because I only know the very basics of GREP.

  • March 21, 2018 at 3:15 pm #102572
    Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

    Participant

    Not sure Graham’s answer is correct!

    I think Clark wants no supplementary hyphen in a composed word!

    Best,
    Michel, from FRIdNGE
    michel.allio.fridnge@gmail.com

  • March 21, 2018 at 3:24 pm #102576
    Graham Park

    Member

    You both could be correct.
    I’ll wait for Clark responses to see what he is trying to do in more detail.

  • March 21, 2018 at 6:16 pm #102580
    Graham Park

    Member

    How about
    A Find and Replace for the hyphen to add a discretionary line break after it.
    The add NO BREAK style with GREP to the first word up the and including the hyphen.

    Apply Style
    No Break
    To Text
    \w+\-

    This will keep the first word and the hyphen together and then break or not as required after this.

  • March 21, 2018 at 9:22 pm #102582
    Clark Kenyon

    Participant

    That’s right. I’m working with an editor who objects every time she sees a compound word hyphenated at the end of a line, so it looks like it has two hyphens in it (this particular book has a lot of compound words). She also doesn’t like it when a word immediately following an em-dash is hyphenated (I never put spaces before and after and em-dash; just doesn’t look right to me). So Graham’s GREP style should work, as I am highlighting these compound/hyphenated words and applying no break from the control panel to them.

  • March 22, 2018 at 3:32 am #102583
    Vinny –

    Member

    Here’s another trick:
    instead of using a “non-breaking” character style, you can use a “no-language” instead.
    This should prevent compound word from hyphenation while keeping the ability to break after the dash.
    I made a quick test using \w+(?=-)|(?<=-)\w+ regex and it seems OK, but should probably be tested on a real project.

  • March 22, 2018 at 3:37 am #102584
    Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

    Participant

    Hmm! …

    Really not sure trying to play this question with Grep could be pro-workable! …

    Best,
    Michel, from FRIdNGE
    michel.allio.fridnge@gmail.com

    • March 22, 2018 at 3:41 am #102585
      Vinny –

      Member

      @Michel…
      Why not?

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