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Adjusting hyphenation
You can hyphenate words manually or automatically.
To choose a hyphenation dictionary:
Choose a language from the pop-up menu at the bottom of the Character palette
To turn automatic hyphenation on or off:
In the Paragraph palette, select or deselect the Hyphenate option.
To set automatic hyphenation options:
1
Choose Hyphenation from the Paragraph palette menu.
2
Enter values for the following options:
•
Words Longer Than
_
Letters to specify the minimum number of characters for
hyphenated words.
•
After First
_
Letters and Before Last
_
Letters to specify the minimum number of
characters at the beginning or end of a word that can be broken by a hyphen.
For example, by specifying 3 for these values,
aromatic
would be hyphenated as
aro- matic
instead of
ar- omatic
or
aromat- ic
.
•
Hyphen Limit to specify the maximum number of hyphens that can appear on consec-
utive lines. Zero means unlimited hyphens.
•
Hyphenation Zone to specify the distance at the end of a line that will cause a word to
break in unjustified type. This option applies only when using the single-line composer.
(See
“About composition methods” on page 362
.)
3
To prevent capitalized words from being hyphenated, deselect Hyphenate Capitalized
Words. Then click OK.
Preventing unwanted word breaks
You can prevent words from breaking at the end of lines—for example, proper names or
words whose break might have a misleading appearance. You also can keep multiple
words from breaking—for example, clusters of initials and a last name.
To prevent characters from breaking:
1
Select the characters you want to prevent from breaking.
2
Choose No Break from the Character palette menu.
Note:
If many contiguous characters use the No Break option, the type may be forced to
wrap in the middle of a word.
Adjusting spacing
You can precisely control the way in which Photoshop and ImageReady space letters and
words and scale characters. Adjusting spacing options is especially useful when working
with justified type, although you can also adjust spacing for unjustified type.
Word spacing
refers to the space between words that is created by pressing the spacebar.
Letter spacing
refers to the distance between letters and includes kerning or tracking
values.
Glyph spacing
refers to the width of characters (a
glyph
is any font character).
Spacing options are always applied to an entire paragraph. To adjust the spacing in a few
characters but not an entire paragraph, use the Tracking option.
