recently, my single line composer has developed a “bug”. (CC 2018, PC, Windows 10) I have already trashed the preferences in an attempt to resolve this.
I’m see very loose lines in the text, where obviously the word a the start of the line could hyphenate and move to end of the preceding line. When I kern the line above slightly to help, I end up with the entire word coming up to the the end of the line, rather than part of it. IF I insert a discretionary hyphen, then I get the result I want without kerning. But these are simple word that Indesign should easily be able to hyphenate, such as pend-ing, or out-come. I shouldn’t have to help it with hyphenation. I have merged a standard word list into the file, then set preferences to use document for hyphenation, and hyphenation set to “proximity”. It just doesn’t want to hyphenate, and I don’t understand why not. It always did before. I haven’t changed anything.
I have hyphenation set to 6, 2, 3, 3, break across columns, break capitalized words, left justified, single line composer. I use single line composer so that when making editorial changes in the middle of the paragraph, line endings above do not randomly change.
any thoughts? anyone else seeing this? I’m wondering if some update to cc 2018 has cause this to happen. I am loathe to reinstall at this point, thinking I’ll end up with the same thing.
I could send snapshots but don’t know how to attach here.
thanks!
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