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From: [e-mail] (Guy Harris)
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Subject: FrameMaker hyphenation - putting hyphenation points into a document
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Date: 22 Nov 92 08:27:05 GMT
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Is it a bug, or a misfeature, that Frame ignores hyphenation point
suggestions (or, at least, "there *ARE* no hyphenation points in this
token" suggestions) that are in the document dictionary?

They do *not* belong in my personal dictionary, as the document(s) I'm
writing could be read, edited, or printed by other people.

They *definitely* belong in the document's dictionary, for the same
reason; the "words" in question are, at least in some cases, somewhat
specific to that document, so they don't belong in a more global
document, and don't belong in per-user documents for the reason
mentioned in the previous paragraph.

However, that doesn't seem to work in the version of Frame we have here
(3.0, for X, SPARC, and SunOS 4.x).  The dictionary in the document has
several "words" (function names and other C-language tokens) that I
dutifully stuck a "-" in front of; however, Frame cheerfully ignores my
suggestion, and hyphenates those tokens.  The documentation doesn't say
it *will* pay attention to it; it seems to imply that hyphenation points
can only be stuck in a personal dictionary, which is completely silly.

Is that bug/misfeature fixed in a later release of Frame?