To prevent the affected range from breaking (for any reason other than a soft hyphen), use the No break check box in the Character panel's Positioning and Transform section.When you select a highlight color using the built-in functionality of Word, that color will be set as the default highlight color, i.e. You can put a soft hyphen at the beginning of a word to prevent it being hyphenated altogether. Īuto-hyphenation has no effect on words that contain a soft hyphen. To remove a hyphen, select the hyphen and press the. From the Text menu, select Insert, then Dashes and Hyphens and choose Soft Hyphen or Non-Breaking Hyphen.Column end zone-defines the amount of space allowed at the end of a column before hyphenation begins.Paragraph end zone-defines the amount of space allowed at the end of a paragraph before hyphenation begins.Capital zone-defines the amount of space allowed before hyphenation begins where words are in all capitals.Hyphenation zone-defines an area from the right edge of frame text where hyphenation rules are ignored.Max consecutive hyphens-prevents too many consecutive lines from ending with a hyphen.Minimum suffix-determines the minimum number of suffixed letters each part of a word must contain if the word is split by auto-hyphenation.Minimum prefix-determines the minimum number of prefixed letters each part of a word must contain if the word is split by auto-hyphenation.Minimum word length-the minimum number of characters that a word must have before it is considered valid to hyphenate the word at the end of a line.Try incrementing values upwards from 1 to experiment. If the amount of extra space exceeds this value, then auto-hyphenation will try to split words to reduce the excess. Minimum Score-the amount of extra space at the end of each line that is considered acceptable.On the Paragraph panel, go to the Hyphenation section and enable/disable Use auto-hyphenation.On the Character panel, go to the Language section and choose from the Hyphenation pop-up menu.īy default, the currently set Spelling language is used for hyphenation.Hyphenation settings, scores and zones are paragraph attributes, while spelling/hyphenation language is a character attribute. Whether you specify automatic hyphenation and a good set of hyphenation options in the Paragraph panel.Whether you specify the language for the text properly in the Character panel in Hyphenation Language option.Whether you have an appropriate hyphenation dictionary for the language installed.Perhaps a word you are using breaks onto a new line at the wrong place-an inserted hyphenation point in the word will force the word to always break at that hyphenation point (the hyphen will display automatically). Hyphens can also be inserted into specific words irrespective of whether auto-hyphenation is enabled or not. 100cm), or you can set a smaller number so that hyphenation can still be used if the text would be very ragged or loose without it. You can prevent hyphenation in these situations by setting these zones to a very large number (e.g. There are several types of hyphenation zone that can be applied in different situations they work in combination. The zones are measured back from the right indent of the frame text, ignoring alignment or justification. Thus setting a wider zone will hyphenate less often.
Hyphenation points will be ignored if they fall within these hyphenation zones. Hyphenation zones can be applied which affect how ragged or loose text can be. Setting a Minimum Score value to a larger number (e.g., 3) will hyphenate less often.Īffinity Publisher can also prevent splitting words that are too short, or leaving too few characters at front or back. For example, the hyphenation point in the middle of the word yellow (to produce the word "yel-low") has a score value of 1, i.e yel1low for "acc-ommo-date" the values are acc2ommo5date.
Each hyphenation point has a value weighting associated with it. As defined by the language-specific hyphenation dictionary, words have pre-defined hyphenation points at which hyphenation will occur.