Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer won't let me manually hyphenate a name.

On Thu, 19 Mar 2015, Doug wrote:

> On 03/19/2015 08:26 PM, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> >  I've got a name 'Bruinsma' that LO wants to hyphenate between the 'u' and
> >  the 'i'. I'm trying to get it to hyphenate between the 'n' and the 's'. LO
> >  won't let me. I go to tools->language->hyphenation with the word
> >  highlighted, but there's no way I can get it to move the hyphen. If I put
> >  my cursor where I want it to hyphenate and click 'hyphenate', it just
> >  closes the dialog and leaves the hyphen in the original place. There also
> >  doesn't seem to be a way to tell LO not to hyphenate that word at all.
> >
> >  As I read the manuals, I should be able to just use 'ctrl plus -' to
> >  manually place a hyphen. But this doesn't work either.
> >
> >  Using LO Version: 4.2.8.2
> >  Build ID: 4.2.8.2-6.fc20
> >
> >  What am I missing?

Eric: If you use 'ctrl plus -' to insert an optional hyphen before the 
'u', does it take effect? If you put it after the place where LO 
already wants to hyphenate, it makes sense that it won't have an 
effect, unless you turn off automatic hyphenation in the paragraph 
style.

> >  Thanks.
>
> This sort of thing is _exactly_ why I won't use LO or AOO!
>
> --doug

Doug: So why exactly are you on this list?

- Robert

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