InDesign Hyphenation Settings
Here's mine, (below) but I'm wondering what others suggest or
use regularly. I think I'd rather have an 'ugly' rag than a string of
hyphens. But I want to see what others prefer.
By the way, is there a global setting for hyphenation in InDesign?
So far, I'm forced to do this manually for each document.
14.Jan.2005 1.41pm
Joe, in some industries you don't have a choice. The banking industry for one, doesn't allow hypenation of any kind. As for my taste I like hypenation as long as its in InDesign and i can hang the hypens. I thought the informal rule was never more than 3 hypens in a row.
On a simular thought do you know about the on-line InDesign magazine being published through Creative Pro. Those writers would have a better perspective of the "rules". You can get a free copy at Creative Pro.
14.Jan.2005 2.02pm
Joe, as far as I can tell (from deduction using InD and reviewing the way the manual reads), hyphenation is a paragraph level kind of setting unless you alter the hyphenation and spelling dictionary preferences.
Help > Working with text > Working with hyphenation and spelling dictionaries
Jon
14.Jan.2005 4.58pm
Hi Joe,
Re. your "global setting":
1.Fire up InDesign and
2. Don't have ANY documents open,
3. then enter your type specifications (like style, optical kerning, color, and H&J settings) in the Character and Paragraph palettes. These settings become the defaults for any future documents you create.
My initial settings for the Hyphenation slider are:
Words longer than: 6
After first: 3
Before last: 3
Hyphen limit: 3 (when I'm setting justified text, that is)
The Hyphenation Zone slider: I bump it 2 notches to the left (of center) towards "better spacing".
For ragged text, I try to use no hyphens (or as few as possible). A main aim of using a ragged setting (as I understand it) is to maintain even spacing.
all the best,
Kaisa