Archive for February, 2003

Hyphenation Exception Dictionary

Wednesday, February 26th, 2003

A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I'd been working on a long, complex book that had to be typeset in Microsoft Word. I learned a lot from the experience, and I'll be passing on some of that hard-won knowledge in future issues. As I worked on the book, one ...

Break That Word Here!

Wednesday, February 12th, 2003

Last week's newsletter explained how to use a zero-width nonbreaking space to keep a word from breaking at the end of a line when hyphenation is turned on (Tools > Language > Hyphenation > Automatically hyphenate document). Fine as far as it goes. But what can you do to break ...

Don’t Break That Word!

Wednesday, February 5th, 2003

I've recently been editing a long, scholarly tome that, for reasons I'll discuss in a future newsletter, my co-workers and I decided to typeset in Microsoft Word, following the techniques explained here: Share