More professional programs like InDesign (and to a certain extent, Scribus) will offer many more settings to help improve the appearance of hyphenated text, for instance, allowing for optical margins (where certain text elements like hyphens are in the margin area, allowing for the text itself to be right aligned). Automatic hyphenation is quicker and easier, although manual hyphenation provides more control. LibreOffice/ Writer provides you with a basic option to set the "Maximum number of consecutive hyphens" in the paragraph settings dialog, but beyond that, not much more control. Combined with the option of limiting consecutive hyphens, you can avoid the ladder effect while still getting decent hyphenation results. When lines of text are too short hyphenate the text to even up the margins. Could anybody help, please This thread is locked.
Microsoft word hyphenation zone how to#
Word will now automatically hyphenate your text so the margins will be more even. In most of my Word 365 documents in the Hyphenation menu the Hyphenation zone appears grey and I do not know how to change this. I could manually force a second word to the last line with a hard space, but this adds excessive spacing to the penultimate line. Hyphens play two essential roles in writing they break single words into parts on syllable boundaries (optional hyphens), and they join separate words into a single word (mandatory hyphens). A larger hyphenation zone will most likely result in a more ragged right margin (and possibly fewer hyphens), while a smaller hyphenation zone would most likely result in the opposite. Check the Automatically Hyphenate Document checkbox and set the Hyphenation zone and the value for the Limit Consecutive Hyphens To setting and click Ok. I tried in PPX9 to change the hyphenation hot zone on a paragraph with a runt (a single word on the last line). The hyphenation zone (used most often, I believe, with ragged right hyphenated text) specifies the distance from the right text margin that hyphens are permitted. Microsoft Word provides you with two options to improve the implementation of hyphens: "Hyphenation zone" and "Limit consecutive hyphens to:". Does this phenomenon have a name? I believe the (obscure) name you are looking for is "ladders" (which is usually used when you have 3 or more consecutive hyphenated lines) however, since most people are not too familiar with the term, I've also seen it referred to in generally descriptive terms like "consecutive hyphenated lines" or, even more generally, "consecutive hyphens".ĭo common word processing software have options to avoid it?Īpple's iWork Page: I don't have access to Apple's iWork Page, but from what I have read, that program does not offer much in the way of hyphenation control.
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