Discretionary hyphens do not seem to work
I can’t get discretionary hyphens to work in Illustrator CC 23.0.2, either by Shift-command -- or with Type > Insert Special Character > Hyphens and Dashes > Discretionary Hyphen. Whether Hyphenate is turned on or off for the paragraph does not matter. Language does not seem to make a difference either.
Only the hyphens added by Illustrator itself are obeyed.
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Some proofs it doesn’t work.
Take a look, please.
The language is Russian (the font is PT Sans Normal, https://fonts.google.com/specimen/PT+Sans).
A third line has two Cyrillic 'оо' together at the end of the line. It’s a 'composite' word and has to be hyphenated between these two letters.
However, Ai tries to put a hyphen after both of them. To guide Ai and avoid inserting a real hyphen and a soft break (in case the layout changes later), I inserted a discretionary hyphen in-bwetween.
Hyphenation gets only applied with every-line composers, so I can’t tell if it’s a ELC problem or not (and I need it to be ELC it seems, although SLC should respect the discr hyphen as well, no?)
Well, the hyphen still gets inserted after both 'оо', no between them, where I placed the discr hyphen...
If I reproduce the exact same object in InD — it works as expected — images attached. -
Jens Klang commented
I have this problem in Illustrator 2024 (v 28) trying to control hyphenations in a German translation.
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Despite this issues was fixed once, the problem returned:
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/36991960-discretionary-hyphens-do-not-seem-to-work
Please upvote it there if you still have this problem! Don’t forget to share details. -
Jonas
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Discretionary hyphens still broken in v. 26.
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Cat
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Same issue here!
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Евгения Бутько
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Hi, Rama! Yes, the issue is fixed for me.
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Евгения Бутько
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Example of the behavior
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Brad Fischer commented
Discretionary hyphens are not working. They become hard hyphens when opening an existing document and also when creating a new document.
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Jonas
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Discretionary hyphens are still broken in v25 (CC2021).
1. Make a text box, with some text in it. Oh no, a word is hyphenating in a bad spot!
2. Add discretionary hyphen in the correct spot
3. Nothing happens... Word still breaking in the wrong spot... :( -
Jonas Madsen Rogne commented
I'm trying to use discretionary hyphens as well. They seem to take effect for like half a second before it reverts to breaking my word somewhere else. It's really weird.
Hypenation in ai seems broken.
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Anonymous
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Please address this ADOBE!
