Troubleshooting and FAQ for hyphenation

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The last word of a selected block is hyphenated in the default language and not in the one you've selected.

Select also the trailing space after the word, or a punctuation mark.

By design, the word is hyphenated with the hyphenation which is the first tag after the word, and not the tag before the word.

When you try to forcibly disable the hyphenation on a word, containing a hyphen character, e.g. vice-chair, by inserting a discretional hyphen before the word, e.g. >-<vice-chair, the word still gets hyphenated.

Edit all your formats, and remove the hyphen character from the Breakable chars field.

The hyphen character is entered as a 'breakable char' in the Global dialog of the current format.

Words should break after X letters

Edit all your formats and then set hyphenation defaults to the desired number of characters.

Proper nouns are not hyphenated at all

Such words may be not a part of the dictionary, so you need to add them to exceptions.