Hyphenator XT is an XTension for QuarkXPress 7 and earlier that optimizes hyphenation for any of more than 50 languages. This $349 XTension has a human-like ability to break words at line endings so that the hyphenated text is easily comprehensible to native speakers.

It uses the intelligent syllable technology from *TALO to find word roots and use cognitive psychology to determine breaks, rather than using spelling algorithms or dictionaries.)

In multilingual documents from QuarkXPress Passport, Hyphenator XT automatically detects the languages used in individual paragraphs.

Jay Nelson

Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 7 training titles at Lynda.com, as well as the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7 . In addition, Jay writes regularly for Macworld and Photoshop User magazines and speaks at industry events.