Like an automatic hyphen, a discretionary one only appears at a line break (as in D, above) if the word doesn’t need to break across lines, the hyphen is removed and the space closes up, a very good thing. You do so when you need to manually override InDesign’s built-in automatic hyphenation for the word, or add a line-breaking hyphen to a word that normally won’t break. If the text is edited and the word doesn’t need to break at the end of the line, the hyphen disappears, as nature intended.ī, D, and E: Discretionary (soft) hyphens are ones you insert manually by choosing Type > Insert Special Character > Hyphens & Dashes > Discretionary Hyphen, or using the keyboard shortcut Command-Shift-hyphen/Ctrl-Shift-hyphen. You’ll only see automatic hyphens if you’ve turned on hyphenation for that paragraph, of course. Automatic hyphens are ones InDesign inserts on its own, when a word needs to break at the end of a line. More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today.Ī: Automatic hyphens like this one are identified by the tilde ( ~ ) markup above the hyphen when Hidden Characters are showing.
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