Adjusting hyphenation

You can hyphenate words manually or automatically.

Note: You can apply hyphenation to specific paragraphs by first selecting only the paragraphs in a type layer that you want to affect.

To choose a hyphenation dictionary:

Choose a language from the pop-up menu at the bottom of the Character palette

To turn automatic hyphenation on or off:

In the Paragraph palette, select or deselect the Hyphenate option.

To set automatic hyphenation options:

1. Choose Hyphenation from the Paragraph palette menu.
2. Enter values for the following options:
• Words Longer Than _ Letters to specify the minimum number of characters for hyphenated words. The default value is 5 letters.
• After First _ Letters and Before Last _ Letters to specify the minimum number of characters at the beginning or end of a word that can be broken by a hyphen. For example, by specifying 3 for these values, aromatic would be hyphenated as aro- matic instead of ar- omatic or aromat- ic.
• Hyphen Limit to specify the maximum number of hyphens that can appear on consecutive lines. Zero means unlimited hyphens.
• Hyphenation Zone to specify the distance at the end of a line that will cause a word to break in unjustified type. This option applies only when using the single-line composer. See About composition methods.
3. To prevent capitalized words from being hyphenated, deselect Hyphenate Capitalized Words. Then click OK.