In editing book text in Pages, the automataic hyphen divides word incorrectly. When I correct it, the hyphen remains when line change differs. In Adobe Pagemaker you could "soft-hyphen" a word to avoid tdhis problem. Can anyone help?
Karl
MacBook Pro
Shift+Option+Space works for me. Is that what you mean?
There isn't any soft hyphenation in Pages. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2549710?threadID=2549710&tstart=53
@ Dale - Your short cut keys is for no break character
I use option + hyphen for a non-breaking hyphen.
Hi Peggy
What you insert is not a soft hyphen
In computing, a soft hyphen (U+00AD,
) is a type of hyphen used to specify a place in text where a hyphenated break is allowed without forcing a line break in an inconvenient place if the text is re-flowed.­
We may insert it in Pages document but, as Fruhulda wrote, it’s not treated the 'standard' way by Pages which treat it like a standard hyphen.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 21 septembre 2011 21:30:20
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I know that, but it works on my system which is why I said "I use."
But why talking about non breaking hyphens when the OP asks about soft hyphens???
I think it's the same thing. It would be very nice if the OP would come back & clarify what he expects to happen.
No, option + hyphen gives a hard hyphen. It will also show in the middle of a line. A soft hyphen will not show in the middle of a line, only at the end of a line. A long time ago soft hyphens worked in AppleWorks. I think it was pre MacOs X.
I see. Pages doesn't have the same control over hyphenation that AppleWorks had. In AppleWorks you could edit the hyphenation dictionary to force hyphens at a certain point or not at all. It does work in OS X. Sometimes the algorithym used to auto-hyphenate didn't break words at the right spot.
Something else to leave feedback about.
At the "old times" it was Shift + Return that created the soft hyphen.
Shift + Return has always created a soft return for me. Still does.
Thank you all for contributing to an answer to my query about soft hyphen. I was looking for a way to insert a hyphen in a word in a block column where the automatic program made a wrong division or I needed to change it for any other reason, without this hyphen appearing later at for instance a change of column. Thanks for your suggestions, but I conclude that there isn't really any way this can be done in Pages.
Too bad, because it means that the program cannot be used for professiional work – in spite of Apple's claim that Pages creates the perfect printed text. I do hope that Apple will dop something about this.
Karl in Oslo
There hasn't been any soft hyphen on the Mac since MacOS 9. I miss it too.
In fact, hyphenation is specific to each language. It seems that the tool (or the set of hyphenation rules) used for your language isn't correctly built. I'm not remembering oddities with the French language.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 25 septembre 2011 21:08:05
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you can add any character to any program (almost) on a Mac; just go to System Preferences -> Keyboard and select "Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar.
In the menu bar click on Show Character Viewer. Type "soft hyphen" into the search box in the title area to the right. The first character is a hyphen, if you click it it becomes selected and to the right you see the name "SOFT HYPHEN". Just below you can click on Favorites for future use. Double clicking the soft hyphen inserts it into the current text at the text mark.
Have fun!
Is there a way to "soft-hyphen" words in Pages?
