At 08:48 20/05/2007 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
Normally I do not want person's names hyphenated. I realize there are
different style manuals in use and there are differences of opinion.
Some say don't hyphenate anything that is capitalized, others say
hyphenate everything. What I used to do in Word was tell it not to
hyphenate anything capitalized, then insert manual hyphens if I wanted
to do so anyway. I can't find that functionality in OOo 2.2. Actually,
a better option would be to hyphenate everything but tell Writer not to
hyphenate specific words on a case by case basis. I can't find that
option either. I selected a name that Writer had hyphenated, but
couldn't find any way to turn off the hyphenation just for that word.
What is the secret?
I thought at first that you might mean hyphenation of
double-barrelled surnames, but you mean the automatic hyphenation at
the ends of lines - right?
Yes: you can do exactly what you need in Writer: you just have to add
the exception to a user-defined dictionary. To do this:
o Go to Tools | Options... | Language Settings | Writing Aids.
o Select one of the entries in the "User-defined dictionaries" list
(create a new one if necessary) and choose Edit.
o In the Word box, type the name you want excluded from automatic
hyphenation, followed immediately (no space) by an "=" sign (e.g.
Featherstonehaugh=).
o Select New and then Close.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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