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Gabe, unfortunately we don't have access to any of the files you send to Adobe, so we might not understand the exact problem description.

Have you edited your dictionaries to specify hyphenation points of the specific words?

If you want a particular word not to hyphenate in one particular instance, placing a discretionary hyphen at the front of the word will disallow hyphenation in that particular instance of the word.

Another possibility is that the Word spacing settings in the paragraph tag may need to be adjusted. In a default FM chapter the settings are Min 90%, optimum 100%, Max 110%. These settings often need to be adjusted depending on the font used, the type of content, and the line measure in order to get the best results with hyphenation.

I work also with French documents, and the hyphenation was a bit buggy with early builds of FM8. Make sure you have the latest updates.

Also (as Sheila says) we can�t see your examples; but I have noticed that minimum before/minimum after rules seem to count punctuation marks as letters, so �pr�sen-te).� with parenthesis and full-point following the -te is counted as four characters after the hyphen.

Hi, thank you for your answers.

I have the latest FrameMaker version 8.0p277.

Here is a .zip archive with a sample FM8 file, a screen capture of the hyphenation settings along with a bug sample : <http://www.interscript.ca/adobe_support/0180382132.zip>

Thanks!

I've taken a look at your example files and I see the problem you've indicated.

As a general observation (and applying to English text, not French), I've always preferred using a minimum word spacing of 85% and optimum at 100%, because it's always seemed to me that a slightly larger "spread" between the two numbers (min vs. max) produces better hyphenation results -- regardless of the FM version or the fonts.

Are you trying to match previously published documents?

It's odd, isn't it?

I tried changing the �shortest suffix� to 4.

In the case of n�cessai-re, it rehyphenates �n�ces-saire�. In the case of r�ali-t�, it doesn�t rehyphenate.

I can't offer any explanation; only confirm that I have had similar experiences, but have generally got around the problem by introducing an optional hyphen manually in the place where I want the word to divide. Which can be tedious. That�s using French, as opposed to Canadian French.

I agree with Sheila that there can�t be any linguistic information in the font.