Dashes supports Apple, Adobe, Casady and Greene, glps, Linguist's Software and other fonts in 21 languages. If you lay out a page in many languages, or in font families other than Apple, or languages other than English then you generally have to do the hyphenation by hand or you have to buy customized software. Dashes does this hyphenation automatically. It is called up from within a processor or desktop publishing prograand inserts discretionary hyphen throughout selected text. Proper nouns and other unusual words can be entered into a user exception dictionary.
Dashes features an algorithm to break compound words in the Germanic languages.
The Dashes DA can be used together with Design Studio, MacWrite II, Microsoft Word, Nisus, RagTime, Ready,Set,Go, PageMaker, Quark XPress and WriteNow among others.