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• • April 2, 2014 at 8:16 pm #67846
    incblot

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    As a rule, I set my paragraph styles up to hyphenate:

    Words with at least: 6 letters
    After First: 3 letters
    Before Last: 3 letters

    But occasionally I want to override this. When a word like cooperation breaks over two lines, I would like it break at: co-operation.

    Adding a discretionary hyphenation doesn’t work.

    Is there a way to override the paragraph style settings?

  • April 3, 2014 at 1:30 am #67847
    Chris Thompson

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    Alternative workaround – apply “no break” to “peration”. OK if there are only a few occasional instances.
    Chris.

  • April 3, 2014 at 10:53 am #67857
    Dwayne Harris

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    If it’s just an occasional thing, there’s really no way to override it. Most likely the discretionary hyphen didn’t work because of the H&Js you have set up. You told it it’s allowed to break after the co-, but InDesign’s H&Js won’t allow it (possibly to avoid a loose line).

    If it’s a break that you always prefer, you could set up a hyphenation except list which you could use for all documents. I have a list that I use frequently.

    But for occasional stuff, you just have to break it by hand by either putting in a hard hphen and a soft return, tracking the paragraph, or using the no-break option that ThompsonText talked about.

    I actually have a character style sheet that I call “no break” that I use a lot.

    Are you using the Adobe paragraph composer or single-line composer? I’m guessing the former.

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