
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.