Forced hyphenation

[Marc Verbeek]

I'm rebuilding (films dissapeared)a small book for a re-print. To fit the tekst precisely around the pictures sometimes I have to override the far better hyphenation of ID 2.02.
a) How can I cut up a word that fits perfectly in the colum as ID is concerned.
b) Other than type a dash and an enter, ontherwise the text gets contaminated with strange dashes and enters when used in the futer.

There must be a simple solution to this, I think!

Marc Verbeek

[Gene Trujillo]

There must be a simple solution to this, I think!

Not really; page layout sometimes resembles a jigsaw puzzle. You may have to use a variety of tactics and juggle a number of factors to manipulate the hyphenation, spacing, and line breaks until it is as good as you can get it. The narrower the column, the more difficult it will be and the more compromises you will need to make.

Don't key a normal "hard hyphen", use a discretionary hyphen (shift+ctrl+-). It won't appear in the text unless the word breaks there.

Despite it's disadvantages, you may need to break a line manually. Don't use an enter, use a "soft return" or forced line break (ctrl+enter). That way it at least remains one paragraph and won't mess up your styles.

Some more tactics: you can use the "No Break" character attribute to keep words together. Or you can insert a discretionary hyphen at the beginning of the word and it won't break. You may need to increase the number of hyphens in a row you allow.

If you have the luxury, adjusting the size of the image or the text wrap offset can sometimes help.

If all else fails, you may allow small amounts of letter spacing or even (gulp!) glyph scaling.

HTH,

Gene

[Dave Saunders]

If you're matching an existing book, then switch off the paragraph composer for your text. The single-line composer will behave a lot more like you're used to. Although I'm still not sure about forcing hyphens. You might need to adjust the slider in the hyphenations panel of the paragraph style options dialog.

Dave