Bad breaks and double hyphenation

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January 2, 2020
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Is there a way to stop ID from hyphenating a word that already has a hyphen in it? I'm trying to avoid bad breaks like:

twen-ty-

two

I'd like ID to either break the word where the hyphen already is, or not break the word at all.

Thanks!

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Correct answer brian_p_dts

Check out this post from David Blatner at InDesign Secrets: https://indesignsecrets.com/stop-hyphenated-words-hyphenating.php

It involves setting up a "no-break" Character style then using Grep Styles to find actually hyphenated words and applying the no-break style to them.

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HHSDebbie

Inspiring

I too am having a PROBLEM with hyphenate!! It is breaking words in absolutely wrong places: examples: so-mething, ge-nerations, Cz-echoslovakia - you get the idea. Have any of you had any resolution with your issues?

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Does your text have the correct language?

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HHSDebbie

Inspiring

I'm sorry, I'm not quite sure what you mean? Thank you.

Lukas Engqvist

Community Expert

If you add a discretionay hypen (ctrl-shift-dash) after the hypen then you will get as you want while retaining the flexibility of reflowable text.

mikie11590029Author

Participating Frequently

This doesn't always work, unfortunately. Sometimes ID will break the word in a place other than where the discretionary hyphen is, or I'll get two hyphens showing up.