Words split at end of line

I cannot find an answer to this that helps me -- so far. Have tried various search terms on the forum and also "iWork 09 for Dummies" but I am apparently even dumber than that, so I can't solve what must be a simple issue.
I am working on formatting a document in Pages, and it automatically splits the words at the end of the line. No hyphens. Just awkward splits. I am set to justify left, don't know why this happens.Tried toggling hyphenation on and off. Tried reverting to the original paragraph style. No luck.
I have been trying to deal with awkward character spacing and figured that out from the Inspector. Just can't get this.
Very frustrating -- this is something that is easy to handle in Word, why can't I figure it out here?????
Please, someone, anyone. HELP!

Welcome to the Apple forums
It's called hyphenation & you can turn it on/off for individual words, individual paragraphs or the whole document.
To turn hyphenation on or off for an individual word, right-click on the work & choose Never Hyphenate from the contextual menu to enable or disable (check or uncheck). For paragraphs or documents, see the screenshots below.

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What have I done here? Composing an email, all of a sudden words at ends of lines are "splitting up" - that is, beginning letters in a word are at the end of a line and the remaining letters are at the beginning of the next line, instead of the entire word dropping to the next line. This has got to be some setting I've changed with an inadvertent keystroke, but I can't find a menu item or preference that corrects this.

Welcome to the Apple forums
It's called hyphenation & you can turn it on/off for individual words, individual paragraphs or the whole document.
To turn hyphenation on or off for an individual word, right-click on the work & choose Never Hyphenate from the contextual menu to enable or disable (check or uncheck). For paragraphs or documents, see the screenshots below.

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I am using Acrobat Adobe X Pro version for our form development and maintanence. I am writting a Acrobat JAVA batch script which reads through all the words and execute spell check and reports the mispelled words in a excel sheet. Since I am running this script in batch mode for more than 1000 pdfs - I am getting many words joined together. When I looked in to those pdfs all such words are looking okay because it is appearing in end of right margin and the next word is in the next line. Since there was no space between them it was extracted as a single word. Hence the failure.
I used wordf = this.getPageNthWordQuads(i,j) to get the word begin and end coordinates. when I closely observe the values are creating a rectangle and that doesnt span across lines. I got the coordinates for the regular word and the word which span acoross two lines. both of the coordinates are same.
I think I am screwed - I have 8000 such words and no clue of how to get rid of them from the actual misspelled words.
please help. let me know if any class /method if I call will give me the end of line or do I need to go to next layer to find this split.
the addnot is somehow marking the words using this coordinates - please hellp me understand how this works. Thanks.
// for all pages
for (var i = 0; i < this.numPages; i++ )
// For all the words
pg += 1;
numWords = this.getPageNumWords(i);
for ( j = 0; j < numWords; j++)
//get the spell check
ckWord = spell.checkWord(this.getPageNthWord(i,j))
if ( ckWord != null )
jn=0
ml=0
// if mispelled word found.
wordf = this.getPageNthWordQuads(i,j)
swordf = wordf.toString()
var st = swordf.split(",")
var diffx0 = parseInt(st[0])-8
var diffx1 = parseInt(st[1])-8
var diffx2 = parseInt(st[2])-8
var diffx3 = parseInt(st[3])-8
var diffx4 = parseInt(st[4])-8
var diffx5 = parseInt(st[5])-8
var diffx6 = parseInt(st[6])-8
var diffx7 = parseInt(st[7])-8
if (cWord == csword)
jn = 1
if ( st[1] != st[3] )
ml = 1
//dataLine += "\r\n write "
else
ml=2
dataLine += "\r\n"+this.documentFileName
+ "\t" + this.getPageNthWord(i,j)
+ "\t" + pg
+ "\t" + j
+ "\t" + ml
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+ "\t st[4] " + diffx4 + "\t st[5] " + diffx5 + "\t st[6] " + diffx6 + "\t st[7] " + diffx7
ck=1

If Acrobat is reading each word part as separate words, you have a problem.
The way I approached it in some of my tools was to check if a word ends
with a hyphen, and if so, to check if it's the last on the line. If both
conditions are true, combine with the next word on the next line. This is
not fool proof, of course, as there are documents with columns are other
structural elements that prevent this from working. Better than nothing,
though...
However, it is also possible that Acrobat does see both parts as parts of
the same word. In that case, getPageNthWordQuads() will return multiple
quads arrays. As you know, that method returns an array of quad arrays.
There's usually only one, but in principle there could be more... Something
to check before giving up.

Is it possible to add a word at the end of a line?

Hi, i'm searching a way to automatically add a word at the end of a certain paragraph styles?
is it something possible doing by using a script?
i don't script myself but if someone could find me a way to do this it would be really appreciated.
Here's an example to what i need to do:
i have paragraph style X in a current book document, and i need to edit the book and add the copyright source at the end of every line that has the style X to it
so i would need something that asks me
the targeted paragraph style
which word i want to append to it, and then apply it torough the document.
Thanks in advance

Yes, the screen shot shows where you got it wrong:
function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
Find: (.)$
and set your paragraph style in the find format area
Change: $1XYZ
where XYZ is the text you want to insert.
.. you forgot the '1' right after the '$'. It's an important omission: "$1" is a GREP code, meaning "insert the found text, parenthesized group #1" -- and there is also a "$2", "$3", etc. up to "$9". It's great if you have to switch two, or even more, items around! But without the digit, the dollar sign indicates ... just a dollar sign.
Change the Change to text to
$1~S(CEMEQ)
and you'll be fine.

MS Word - words get cut in half at the end of line

I am doing English editing of a Word document written in Korean and then translated by someone. I am using MS Word 2011 for Mac. I have to edit about 60 of these documents, each is about four pages.
I edited about eight of them without any problems of formatting.
Then with the last four of them, I noticed that the words at the end of the line would get cut in half with one half of the word appearing at the end of one line, and the second half of the word appearing at the beginning of the next line.
I don't know how to fix this.
The documents have macro with them. Could that be the problem? Before, I was asked whether I wanted to turn on macros or not, and I chose "No" initially, and then I switched to "Yes". Now even though I went into preferences and chose "Warn me before opening macros", the documents open without this opening message.
I don't know what to do. I know Hangeul (Korean) is written so that it doesn't matter whether words get chopped in half and the original document was written on MS Word for Koreans (and has Korean fonts and things like that).
But the person who sent me the original document is not available and besides can't speak English so I can't ask her about this.
It might not have anything to do with macros. I remember vaguely a while ago I had the same problem and I fixed it using some simple measure but I can't remember what I did.
I browsed the web looking for solutions but have not found any.

I noticed this formatting problem is present in lists but not all lists.
If the list is
1.
2.
3.
there is no problem
When the list is
i.
ii.
iii.
there is a problem.
When the list is
A.
B.
C.
there is NO problem.
When the list is
⓵
⓶
There IS a problem.
I am making these lists using the list function in Word as well as the indenting function. I don't have a choice as the document already came with these lists.
So I think this is a bug in MS Word because the words don't get chopped in half when the lists are a certain way but they do get chopped when the lists are in another way.
Words are chopped:
Words are not chopped:
Words are chopped:

List item has broken words at end of lines

Hi,
I have another basic question about InDesign (CS5.5)
How to set the paragraph attribute so the bullet list can have word wraped a the end of lines? I unchecked " Hyphenate" in the paragraph style but still get broken words at the end.
Thanks for responding.
Amy

That should do it. If you are applying these changes as local overrides to a paragraph style (in which case, the name of the paragraph style will have a + beside it), you have to be sure that all the text you want to change is selected when you make the change. A good workflow is to create a paragraph style for your list and not use local overrides, so you can see in the paragraph style list (by virtue of the presence or absence of the + sign) whether local overrides are a contributing factor. Holding the Option key (on Mac OS) while selecting a paragraph style will remove local overrides, and you can also remove them from the fly-out triangle on the styles window. Keep in mind that character styles applied over paragraph styles are not considered local overrides, with respect to the + sign, so you'll have to keep an eye on the character styles pallet a bit also.

Applescript compile fails with "Expected end of line, etc. but found identifier"

Hi,
I've written my first applescript to move messages in Micorosoft Outlook to a specific folder. It is based on existing scripts I found on the internet. However my version keeps failing to compile with the error "Expected end of line, etc. but found identifier". I tried the exact same script on another Mac and it works. I created a very simple version of the script to show the error. All I am trying to do is get the current selected messages so I can move them:
on run {}
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and I still get the same errors on the word "messages" above.
MAC is running OSX 10.9.4
Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 - version 14.4.3 (140616)
Since the script works on other computers the only thing I can assume is something wrong with the setup.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
- Ben

Frank Caggiano wrote:
twtwtw
Any reason that the parens would be needed on some cases and not in others? As you can see the code the OP posted compiled fine on my system with no need of the parens. Also the OP mentioned that the code did work on one machine but not another so I would assume again the parens were not needed in that case.
JUst curious
regards
Parentheses have the same function here as they do in mathematical equations. They are cues to the compiler about the order in which different parts of the statement should be processed. The problem here, I think, is that the word current is part of a lot of applescript nouns: current date, current application, current messages, current user, current track, current location, etc. That's exacerbated by the fact that message is also a noun in its own right in Outlook, creating an ambiguous bit of grammar. Applescript has to interpret the presence of that word in context, and several factors - different versions of the OS or of the relevant applications, the presence of different osaxen, runtime issues that alter how the Applescript system reads in the scriptability information - could affect how that interpretation plays out.
Context is (apparently) everything, sometimes.

OR ('|') in regular expressions (e.g. split a String into lines)

Which match gets used when you use OR ('|') to specify multiple possible matches in a regex, and there are multiple matches among the supplied patterns? The first one (in the order written) which matches? Or the one which matches the most characters?
To make this concrete, suppose that you want to split a String into lines, where the line delimiters are the same as the [line terminators used by Java regex|http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html#lt] :
     A newline (line feed) character ('\n'),
     A carriage-return character followed immediately by a newline character ("\r\n"),
     A standalone carriage-return character ('\r'),
     A next-line character ('\u0085'),
     A line-separator character ('\u2028'), or
     A paragraph-separator character ('\u2029)
This problem has [been considered before|http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=4&threadID=464846] .
If we ignore the idiotic microsoft two char \r\n sequence, then no problem; the Java code would be:
String[] lines = s.split("[\\n\\r\\u0085\\u2028\\u2029]");How do we add support for \r\n? If we try
String[] lines = s.split("[\\n\\r\\u0085\\u2028\\u2029]|\\r\\n");which pattern of the compound (OR) regex gets used if both match? The
[\\n\\r\\u0085\\u2028\\u2029]or the
\\r\\n?
For instance, if the above code is called when
s = "a\r\nb";and if the first pattern
[\\n\\r\\u0085\\u2028\\u2029]is used for the match when the \r is encountered, then the tokens will be
"a", "", "b"
because there is an empty String between the \r and following \n. On the other hand, if the rule is use the pattern which matches the most characters, then the
\\r\\n
pattern will match that entire \r\n and the tokens will be
"a", "b"
which is what you want.
On my particular box, using jdk 1.6.0_17, if I run this code
String s = "a\r\nb";
String[] lines = s.split("[\\n\\r\\u0085\\u2028\\u2029]|\\r\\n");
System.out.print(lines.length + " lines: ");
for (String line : lines) System.out.print(" \"" + line + "\"");
System.out.println();
if (true) return;the answer that I get is
3 lines: "a" "" "b"So it seems like the first listed pattern is used, if it matches.
Therefore, to get the desired behavior, it seems like I should use
"\\r\\n|[\\n\\r\\u0085\\u2028\\u2029]"instead as the pattern, since that will ensure that the 2 char sequence is first tried for matches. Indeed, if change the above code to use this pattern, it generates the desired output
2 lines: "a" "b"But what has me worried is that I cannot find any documentation concerning this "first pattern of an OR" rule. This means that maybe the Java regex engine could change in the future, which is worrisome.
The only bulletproof way that I know of to do line splitting is the complicated regex
"(?:(?<=\\r)\\n)" + "|" + "(?:\\r(?!\\n))" + "|" + "(?:\\r\\n)" + "|" + "\\u0085" + "|" + "\\u2028" + "|" + "\\u2029"Here, I use negative lookbehind and lookahead in the first two patterns to guarantee that they never match on the end or start of a \r\n, but only on isolated \n and \r chars. Thus, no matter which order the patterns above are applied by the regex engine, it will work correctly. I also used non-capturing groups
(?:X)
to avoid memory wastage (since I am only interested in grouping, and not capturing).
Is the above complicated regex the only reliable way to do line splitting?

bbatman wrote:
Which match gets used when you use OR ('|') to specify multiple possible matches in a regex, and there are multiple matches among the supplied patterns? The first one (in the order written) which matches? Or the one which matches the most characters?
The longest match wins, normally. Except for alternation (or) as can be read from the innocent sentence
The Pattern engine performs traditional NFA-based matching with ordered alternation as occurs in Perl 5.
in the javadocs. More information can be found in Friedl's book, the relevant page of which google books shows at
[http://books.google.de/books?id=GX3w_18-JegC&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=regular+expression+%22ordered+alternation%22&source=bl&ots=PHqgNmlnM-&sig=OcDjANZKl0VpJY0igVxkQ3LXplg&hl=de&ei=Dcg7S43NIcSi_AbX-83EDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CA0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false|http://books.google.de/books?id=GX3w_18-JegC&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=regular+expression+%22ordered+alternation%22&source=bl&ots=PHqgNmlnM-&sig=OcDjANZKl0VpJY0igVxkQ3LXplg&hl=de&ei=Dcg7S43NIcSi_AbX-83EDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CA0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false]
If this link does not survive, search google for
regular expression "ordered alternation"
My first hit went right into Friedl's book.
Harald.

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How to find a specific word in sentence in each line and output will show start from the beginning from specific word plus with small description from each sentence?
For example: I need to find a "+Wednesday+" and "+Thursday+" word in each sentence by line by line from "myfile.txt".
Go ballet class next Wednesday.
On the Wednesday is going to swim class.
We have a meeting on Thursday at Panda's.
Then it will show the output:
Wednesday : ballet class
Wednesday : swim class
Thursday: meeting at Panda's
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I got it and understand much better. Thank you very much. There is a problem with it because I knew how to make
a specific word in sentence but how I should make Output for specific word and some words from sentence.
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I used the codes for that:
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I want to ask a question but is it supposed to go in this "Ask Your Question" field or should this really be a synopsis or a tersely worded teaser, like a "subject" line?

Oh.
When I pushed the "Ask your question of the community" I got this empty box. But I've already asked my question. Should I copy and paste it into this box?
> I want to ask a question but is it supposed to go in this "Ask Your Question" field or should this really be a synopsis or a tersely worded teaser, like a "subject" line?<
There. Now I have asked the same question, which is of questionable value, for sure, twice. So, if someone answers it, they will get twice the points. Right? Or is there another box for that? Should I paste the question into another box? Twice?
I've been around here for a l-o-n-g time, longer than ol' BenB by several years, so you'd think I'd know better.
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Don't you have a deadline?
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This String contains ends of line i want to delete before applying my parsing treatment.
I've tried to do that by replacing the character "\n" with "" :
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Edited by: jfact on Dec 29, 2007 11:06 AM

The second (optional) argument to Pattern is a set of flags. Take a look at the Javadoc.
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I am making an applescript for my modding tool for Minecraft. It used to use multiple apps and I am now trying to make one app for all the tasks.
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if the button_pressed is "Backup" then
display dialog "Are you sure you want to backup your Minecraft.jar in it's current state?" buttons {"Yes", "No"} default button 2
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if the button_pressed is "Restore" then
display dialog "Are you sure you want to restore your Minecraft.jar with your backup?" buttons {"Yes", "No"} default button 2
if the button_pressed is "Yes" then
do shell script "~/desktop/iCraft/iCraft.app/resources/s…
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display dialog "Restore aborted"
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Your script got mangled when pasting it into your message, but the main problem looks like you are missing a bunch of end if statements. Unless your if statements are contained on one line, you need to terminate them with a matching end if statement - for example, the following are equivalent:
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Apple Script Editor, "Expected end of line but found identifier" Error

Hello, I'm trying to automate an Application I have, called Self Control, since I have ADD and easily get distracted, and what I want to do is for my computer to automatically set the application up, but to do this, I need a script, which I have already done, but get this error, can someone help me fix this script?
(the error happens once I click on "run", it tells me as follows: "Syntax Error", followed by, "Expected end of line but found identifier".
on run argv
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tell current keychain
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tell process "SelfControl"
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This is a pain with Applescript.
Could be a missing " or ' . I didn't notice this problem.
Use (* and *) to comment out lines to find where the problem lays. Start big then go smaller and smaller until you find the problem line. Search internet for examples of the line in question.

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It's not clear exactly what you're aiming for here, so it's not easy to tell you how to fix it.
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