Adobe InDesign CS3 - Manual (Page 255)

INDESIGN CS3
User Guide
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See also
“Highlight lines that are too loose or tight” on page 251
“Justify text next to wrap objects” on page 199
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 justifying single words in narrow columns of fully justified text.
See also
“Adjust word and letterspacing in justified text” on page 250
“Hyphenation and spelling dictionaries” on page 155
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.
Note: 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
Hyphenation is based on word lists that can be stored either in a separate user dictionary file on your computer, or
in the document itself. To ensure consistent hyphenation, you may want to specify which word list to refer to,
especially if you will be taking your document to a service provider or if you work in a workgroup.
❖ To turn automatic hyphenation on or off for a paragraph, in the Paragraph panel or Control panel, select or
deselect the Hyphenation option. (You can also include this option in a paragraph style.)
When you set automatic hyphenation options, you can determine the relationship between better spacing and fewer
hyphens. You can also prevent capitalized words and the last word in a paragraph from being hyphenated.
Set automatic hyphenation options for a paragraph
1 Click in a paragraph or select the range of paragraphs you want to affect.
2 Choose Hyphenation from the Paragraph panel menu.
3 Select the Hyphenate option.