Hyphenation HORROR: the word was-n't

[WPA Ne]

This is a bit ridiculous. Publisher 2003 hyphenated the last word in a
paragraph. The paragraph ends with the phrase,

and it wasn't.

There is a hyphen between the s and the n, and so the last two lines
contains the structure:

......., and it was-
n't.


I selected the bogus word, clicked on Tools, Language, Hyphenation, and
then I was given this prompt:

Hyphenate
Hyphenate at: was-n't

*Yes* *No* *Close*

When I select No, nothing changes! When I select Yes, it tells me that
hyphenation is complete. Ugh.

Can anyone give me a clue here to rid myself of this horror?

I can't turn off hyphenation for the whole story -- it is 30 pages long
and needs hyphenation.

Thanks.

 

[John Inzer]

This is a bit ridiculous. Publisher 2003 hyphenated the
last word in a paragraph. The paragraph ends with the
phrase,

and it wasn't.

There is a hyphen between the s and the n, and so the
last two lines contains the structure:

......, and it was-
n't.


I selected the bogus word, clicked on Tools, Language,
Hyphenation, and then I was given this prompt:

Hyphenate
Hyphenate at: was-n't

*Yes* *No* *Close*

When I select No, nothing changes! When I select Yes, it
tells me that hyphenation is complete. Ugh.

Can anyone give me a clue here to rid myself of this
horror?

I can't turn off hyphenation for the whole story -- it is
30 pages long and needs hyphenation.

Thanks.

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Just a thought...could you move
the word 'wasn't' to the next line?

Or...change it to was not?

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[Mary Sauer]

Highlight the word, format, character spacing, tighten up the spacing a bit.

 

[Michel Maman]

Hi,

I'm reproducing your problem with Publisher 2007 beta.
But in the windows you got after you select your word then Tools, Language,
Hyphenation, you can move the hyphenation's position with the right/left
arrow.
If you put it after the quote ', then Publisher won't hyphenate your word
You have to try as I can't test myself in Publisher 2003.

Regards.

Michel

 

[WPA Ne]

Just a thought...could you move the word 'wasn't' to the next line?

When I do, the justification will suffer. The word "it" should be
justified right, and the word "wasn't" would justify left. But that's
not what happens when I strike Return between the two words.

Or...change it to was not?

It is a quote from someone who is not alive to help change it, and the
author is not me. In other words, I'm editing/formatting someone else's
document.

 

[WPA Ne]

Highlight the word, format, character spacing, tighten up the spacing a bit.

Yes, going to 95% of normal spacing for the last line of the paragraph
(13 words) seems to be a good workaround.

Does anyone know if I can manually disable a particular hyphenation of a
particular word? You know, like a custom.dic for spelling!

I know, I'm dreaming.

Billy

 

[WPA Ne]

Hi,

I'm reproducing your problem with Publisher 2007 beta.
But in the windows you got after you select your word then Tools, Language,
Hyphenation, you can move the hyphenation's position with the right/left
arrow.
If you put it after the quote ', then Publisher won't hyphenate your word
You have to try as I can't test myself in Publisher 2003.

Regards.

Michel

That's sort of what I was expecting to be able to do. However, when I
put it after the quote and say Yes, here's my text (HOLD ON TO YOUR
FUNNY BONE):

....., and there wasn'-
t.

Looks good, huh!?

That's Publisher 2003 for ya!
Since you are a beta tester, why don't you submit a bug report about it.
You could recommend to remove the word "wasn't" from the hyphenation
database, unless M$ can provide a grammatical expert on the subject of
hyphenation who thinks that such a word needs a hyphen. And then when
they fix it, upload the new hyphenation database and I'll bet it will
work fine with my version of Publisher!

I'll be glad to send you a paragraph in which the word appears and gets
wrapped, and winds up on the last line as
n't.

(Pronounced unnnT)

Thanks.