Hyphenation OR using a Greek font

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Hello,

I am putting together a book with some 30 chapters from different authors with Scrivener. One of the chapters uses an additional Greek font for certain words.

Problem: When compiling to PDF the words with the Greek font are changed to the main font when I have hyphenation activated. If I switch it off, the Greek is exported as it should.

Is there a way to have BOTH features working when I compile the book? A book in German simply needs hyphenation, and the author of this chapter would like to see the Greek words in a Greek font…

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Merry Christmas, by the way.

Franz in Austria

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Merry Christmas, Franz.

If you are using S3, does it work if you apply a style to the Greek?

Scrivener User Manual - Styles.pdf (302 KB)

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Hi,

thanks for the suggestion. But I can’t see how I can apply a style to single words. I tried, it doesn’t seem to work, certainly no difference.

Maybe the workaround could be that I export to pdf with hyphenation; the reimport this PDF and manually change each Greek word from the latin characters back to Greek. Then export to PDF…

I’d prefer it to work at the same time, hyphenation and keeping the Greek characters in place.

Shalom,
Franz

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Scrivener 3 allows you to create word styles, separate from paragraph styles. Highlight one of your Greek words, then go to Format > Style > New style from selection… and in the dialog pane that appears, give it a name e.g. ‘Greisich’, set a shortcut if you want, and where it says “Save all formatting” click the blue up-down carets and choose “Save character attributes”.

It will appear at the bottom of the styles list or on the Styles palette under “Character Styles”.

HTH

Mark

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Hi Mark,
thanks a lot for your help. I just tried it. Yes, I was able to create a new style for the Greek font. However, the result is still the same. The Greek characters are not in the PDF. Actually, now it does not even work when I deactivate hyphenation.

Shalom,
Franz

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Some things you may wish to check:

• Did you apply the Greek style to all the Greek words? If yes, then…
• Did your Greek style include font family? (If you’re not sure, place your cursor in a word with the style and select Redefine Style from Selection.) If no, tick that box and test again. If yes, then…
• Did you add the style to your compile format? If not, then do so and test again.

And at that point I’ve reached the limit of my suggestions… :slight_smile: