xmpie ucreate print how to manage variable information multiple line with proper line break and hyphenation

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Kitti Kaewniyom

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Sep 11, 2023, 9:09:27 PM9/11/23
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Hello All member,


Currently I am using XMPie ucreate print to create some year book, one of the content in this book is Motto which there are different sentence, wording and length. So when it was generated output PDF from Indesign some time it was improper line brake and hyphenation on the last wording. This is not llok good for the output,

Therefore, do you have any tips how to create proper line break and hyphenation with generate beautiful output? Could you share to me please?

Thank you

Kitti

Kitti Kaewniyom

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Sep 13, 2023, 11:26:05 PM9/13/23
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Do anyone know how to create proper solution regards to this?

ในวันที่ วันอังคารที่ 12 กันยายน ค.ศ. 2023 เวลา 8 นาฬิกา 09 นาที 27 วินาที UTC+7 Kitti Kaewniyom เขียนว่า:

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Sep 14, 2023, 1:49:35 AM9/14/23
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Hello,

"Improper" here may differ from "improper" there.
Could you be more explicit in regards with what is actually not proper in your output?
Could you provide a screenshot or an output sample?

As a Vice-President of the WOAH (the famous "Worldwide Organization Against Hyphenation"), I always disable hyphenation, as all our members also do. I respect those who do not or cannot, though.

As per the line breaks (regardless they are proper or not), I think that inserting a "\n" in your QLingo would indeed break the line between two entities. Such as:

|->[data source field] & "\n" & @{variable}

which would insert a line break between the value of a data source field and the value of a variable.

If |->[data source field] contains "one two three" and @{variable} contains "big small medium" then the resulting string would be

one two three
big small medium

or

FindAndReplace( |->[data source field] & " " & @{variable}, " ", "\n")

which would replace all space characters in the values of a data source field, a space character and the value of a variable by line breaks.

If |->[data source field] contains "one two three" and @{variable} contains "big small medium" then the resulting string would be

one
two
three
big
small
medium

Still being usure on what is proper or inproper on your side.

couch

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Sep 14, 2023, 2:07:12 AM9/14/23
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XMPie relies on InDesign for paragraph formatting.
I suspect that your problem relates to the paragraph composer. You will find the setting in the inDesign preferences:

paragraph composer.jpg

In general, you should be able to check the text in InDesign using a text box and plain text string making sure it works fine in InDesign first.
Once the line endings are working correctly in plain text you should be able to apply the content object using the same font and paragraph settings.

rhopfner

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Sep 14, 2023, 2:57:31 AM9/14/23
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Absolutely always turn off hyphhenation in paragraph style. 

If you don't have a lot of mottos, typeset each one on a different layer and use layer visibility 

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Simpletun K.

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Sep 25, 2023, 5:12:33 PM9/25/23
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All,

Thank you for your solution and ideas.

I think I could found some solution regards to this hyphens oaragtaph.

Thank you
Kitti K.

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