FM8 - what are hyphens.xxx files for?

[Fred Ridder]

I don't think this has changed in FrameMaker 8.0. In older versions,
the hyphens.* files are the standard, editable language-specific
hyphenation dictionaries as opposed to the spelling dictionaries
(*.lex binary dictionaries, *.dct editable dictionaries), the binary
hyphenation dictionaries (*.hyp), and the binary thesaurus files
(*.ths). In each case * represents a language code, typically
three letters.

Personally, I've never paid much attention to the hyphenation
dictionaries because our standard templates do not enable
automatic hypehnation for any paragraphs. Our templates use
ragged right alignment and automatic hyphenation makes only
a small improvement in overall appearance but causes a significant
degradation in readability. But YMMV.

Fred Ridder


>From: "Klaus Daube" <frame at daube.ch>
>Reply-To: frame at daube.ch
>To: framers at FrameUsers.com
>Subject: FM8 - what are hyphens.xxx files for?
>Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:50:16 +0200
>
>
>    Dear all, especially the FM8 beta testers,
>
>    Does anyone have an idea what the files hyphens.xxx in the directory
>    dict are good for?
>
>    They look very similar to *.dct (user.dct, site.dct, ...) files, but
>    obviously are not case sensitive.
>
>    Of course these files are coded in UTF-8. These files may be quite
>    long. hyphens.bul for example has nearly 3000 lines. As far as I know,
>    dct files are limited (or were limited?) to about 2000 lines.
>
>    Your answer (or even guess) will help me to understand some things in
>    FM8 better.
>
>    Klaus Daube
>
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