From the course: InDesign: Typography Part 2
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Hyphenation - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Typography Part 2
Hyphenation
- [Voiceover] Hyphenation is an example of the compromises that are sometimes necessary for good typography. By allowing words at the ends of lines to be broken, hyphenation minimizes the amount of leftover space on a line. As long as the hyphenation breaks make sense, and are infrequent, hyphenation is preferable to bad word spacing or uneven ranks. We're used to reading hyphenated text, we do it without thinking. Good hyphenation can be labor intensive. Appropriate hyphenation settings address most issues, but InDesign can't read your mind. There will be times when you need to intervene to make sure words break the way you want. Moving to the second page in the document, so here I have three paragraphs of the exact same text, without hyphens, with default hyphenation settings, and with custom hyphenation settings. I'm going to press w to show my guides and when I do so, we see a lot of yellow highlighting, this is the consequence of a composition preference, h and j violations, so…
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