Hyphenation dictionary for none language

[Alan]

In some of the science fiction stories I am entering into my computer the author uses unusual capitalization patterns for his made-up words. These words are also used with the normal capitalizations that Atlantis already handles. To be able to have the spellchecker find any misspelled made-up words I change the oddball capitalization words language to none. This causes the none language words to not break across lines and thereby leave large whitespace gaps. Please allow the none language to have a hyphenation dictionary.

Alan

[admin]

The main purpose of marking document fragments with the “<none>” language is to instruct the proofing tools to skip over these fragments.

You can mark these made-up words with any “unused” language for which Atlantis does not have a hyphenation module. I would use “Zulu” or “Afrikaans”.

[Alan]

Hi admin,
I chose none specifically so that the spellchecker will skip over these words. All books I have been entering for a couple of years only use the default English (United States) language. I use none on doubled words so the spellchecker does not highlight them. To accompany this I have a separate file for each book with a spellcheck list I go through before starting editing so the spellchecker only finds new misspelled words. I run the spellchecker after every OCR scan addition to the book, generally 2 facing pages. The end result after entering the whole book are no misspelled names and all unique names/foreign words/made-up words individually identified in a separate document. It is rare for me to not find at least 1 misspelled name in a book, mainly science fiction, which is what started me on developing this procedure.

Alan

[Alan]

Hi admin,
I updated to 4.4.5.2 this morning, set the language to Africans (South Africa), added WeEoOhHhH to the Hyphenation dictionary, and ran Spellcheck multiple times. Each time I received a Warning: No spellchecker is installed for language Afrikaans (South Africa). I have 2 options: either close the box or OK out of it. How do I keep from getting that message?

Alan

[admin]

My above suggestion was regarding automatic hyphenation.

You cannot disable the “No spellchecker is installed” message when you run the “Tools | Spellcheck…” command. But if you assign a keyboard shortcut to the “Show next misspelling” command through the “Tools | Customize | Hot Keys…” dialog:



you can press this shortcut instead of using the “Tools | Spellcheck…” command. In this case, you will not get the “No spellchecker is installed” message.

Or another suggestion that I would personally use. You can keep marking these made-up words with the “<none>” language. But instead of creating custom hyphenation patterns for them, you can add optional hyphens. For example, you encounter “WeEoOhHhH” in your document. You click it, and press Ctrl+H. This will open the Find/Replace tool. Paste the word to the “Replace with” box, and insert optional hyphens “^-”:

Find what:
WeEoOhHhH

Replace with:
We^-Eo^-OhHhH

Then click “Replace all”.

[Alan]

Hi admin,
Thank you for the suggestions.

I do not use optional hyphens as these books are going to be converted to ePubs (thanks for that built-in function) to be read on my Kobo ePub reader which handles them poorly, i.e., leaving gaps or dashes in their place when the words are displayed.

I have decided to use a language that I am unlikely to use (Lithuanian) that has a spellchecker, so no warning, for all my special case hyphenations.

Alan