Real World Adobe InDesign CS4- P11: The book uses Robert Slimbach’s Minion Pro, an Adobe OpenType face, which was particularly useful when moving files across platforms. Code samples are set in Lucas de Groot’s TheSansMonoCondensed. A few other fonts were used for example characters. | 288 REAL WORLD ADOBE INDESIGN CS4 Before Last. The value you enter here sets the minimum size in characters of the word fragment following a hyphen. Some people don t mind if the ly in truly sits all by itself on a line. You care about type so you set this to at least three. Hyphen Limit. You can limit the number of consecutive hyphens you ll allow to appear at the left edge of a column of text using the Hyphen Limit field. Enter a value greater than one to allow consecutive hyphens. Hyphenation Zone. Another way to limit the number of hyphens in a paragraph is the Hyphenation Zone setting. The idea is that there is an invisible zone along the right margin of each paragraph. If InDesign is trying to break a word at the end of a line it looks to see where the hyphenation zone is. If the word before the potentially hyphenated word falls inside the zone then InDesign just gives up and pushes the word onto the next line without hyphenating it . If the previous word does not fall into the zone then InDesign will hyphenate the word. That s the concept at least. As it turns out InDesign s composition algorithms are complex enough that the hyphenation zone is often overridden by other factors especially when using the Paragraph Composer. In addition the Hyphenation Zone setting doesn t have any effect at all on justified text. In general for non-justified text larger amounts mean fewer hyphens but more variation in line lengths rag . Hyphenation Slider. Someone somewhere must have complained that InDesign s hyphenation controls weren t flexible enough because those wacky engineers at Adobe have added the Hyphenation Slider to the Hyphenation Settings dialog box. We re sure there s a lot of math behind what this slider is doing but all you really need to know is that you can move the slider back and forth between Better Spacing and Fewer Hyphens to get a more pleasing appearance turn on preview to see the effect of the slider . This control is called Nigel because it goes .
