Reply To: InDesign is using minus symbol instead of hyphens

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March 31, 2022 at 11:11 am #14362529
David Blatner
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Oh. InDesign is using whatever the character is for the hyphen in the font. I don’t think there is any way to replace that character with another one.
You could use a GREP Style to apply a character style that has a different width to all hypens. (I write about how to do that with em dashes here: https://creativepro.com/5-cool-things-you-can-do-with-grep-styles/ )
But that won’t apply to hyphens inside words that are being broken. Hm.

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