Adobe InDesign - Manual (Page 436)

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From the Paragraph panel menu, choose Adobe Paragraph Composer (the default) or Adobe Single-line Composer.
From the Paragraph panel menu or the Control panel menu, choose Justification, and then choose an option from the Composer menu.
Additional composition engine plug-ins from other companies may be available, along with interfaces that let you customize an engine’s
parameters.
Set composition preferences
1. Choose Edit > Preferences > Composition (Windows) or InDesign > Preferences > Composition (Mac OS).
2. To use on-screen highlighting to identify compositional problems, select Keep Violations And H&J Violations (hyphenation and justification).
3. To justify text that wraps around an object, select Justify Text Next To An Object.
4. Under Mojikumi Compatibility Modes, determine whether you want to select Use New Vertical Scaling or Use CID-Based Mojikumi.
5. Click OK.
Hyphenate text
The settings you choose for hyphenation and justification affect the horizontal spacing of lines and the aesthetic appeal of type on your pages.
Hyphenation options determine whether words can be hyphenated and, if they can, which breaks are allowable.
Justification is controlled by the alignment option you choose, the word spacing and letterspacing you specify, and whether or not you have used
glyph scaling. You can also justify single words in narrow columns of fully justified text.
Eda Warren provides an article about avoiding composition problems at Mind the Gaps .
Adjust hyphenation manually
You can hyphenate words manually or automatically, or you can use a combination of the two methods. The safest way to hyphenate manually is
to insert a discretionary hyphen, which is not visible unless the word needs to be broken at the end of a line. Placing a discretionary hyphen at the
beginning of a word prevents it from being broken.
1. Using the Type tool , click where you want to insert the hyphen.
2. Do one of the following:
Choose Type > Insert Special Character > Hyphens And Dashes > Discretionary Hyphen.
Press Ctrl+Shift+- (Windows) or Command+Shift+- (Mac OS) to insert a discretionary hyphen.
Entering a discretionary hyphen in a word does not guarantee that the word will be hyphenated. Whether or not the word breaks depends
on other hyphenation and composition settings. However, entering a discretionary hyphen in a word does guarantee that the word can be broken
only where the discretionary hyphen appears.
Adjust hyphenation automatically
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