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How do you HYPHENATE a word in In Design CS 5.5 ?

May 16, 2012 9:34 AM

Tags: #hyphenation

How do you HYPHENATE a word in In Design CS 5.5 ?

 

I understand how to apply "NO BREAK" — but how do you force a hyphenation ?

 
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    May 16, 2012 9:41 AM   in reply to Ceencha

    Ceencha wrote:

     

    how do you force a hyphenation ?

    Put your cursor where you want the hyphen and hit the hyphen key.

     

    Or are you asking how to control where the hyphen will be inserted when a break is necessary but not when the word doesn't need to break, which is not the same as forcing a hyphen. That's called a Discretionary Hyphen and can be inserted using the  context menu to Insert Special Character > Hyphens and Dashes > Discretionary Hyphen.

     

    You can also add preferred hyphenation to a word and add it to your user dictionary.

     
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    May 25, 2012 11:57 AM   in reply to Ceencha

    A non-breaking hyphen does not break, but the word may still be broken at any other point. "2-Acetoxybenzoic acid", to name any random non-lethal chemical compound, looks odd when the "2" gets separated from the rest; but since it's a rather long word not to hyphenate at all, you would use the non-breaking hyphen.

     

    Of course you could just select the "2-A" part and apply No Break to it; but inserting a non-breaking hyphen is slightly less work.

     
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