Fix Hyphenation and Compound Words with a Script • InDesign

Published: 17 September 2024
on channel: Becky’s Graphic Design®, LLC

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Got too many hyphen breaks? Got hyphens in the wrong spot? Have compound words with hyphens that don't occur on the natural hyphen? Ugh! Let's fix these quick with a script (especially for a very long document!)

Find script files here (there are two, as it's a two-part script.)
https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/...

This is the GREP expression I was using:
^.[^,]+?$

0:00 - Intro
0:31 - The Hyphen Problem
1:30 - Proper Hyphenation Rules
2:00 - The User Dictionary
3:09 - How to Tell InDesign to Hyphenate
4:06 - How to Indicate More than One Hyphen Break
5:30 - The Peter Kahrel Scripts
6:50 - What is a Script??
7:20 - Launching Script 1
7:50 - Script Settings
8:50 - The Created Document
9:30 - Running the Second Script
11:00 - Compound Words Only
11:45 - GREP, Remove all Lines That Do NOT Contain

Licensed Intro/Outro Music:
Lake Michigan by Staffan Carlén.

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