fix holes and rivers in copy

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Want to be able to intelligently fix holes and rivers in justified body copy and fix text rags

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I do understand how to use justification settings as well as hyphenation, however, this is more of a recommendation for Adobe to put AI to use in this application.

Students are not skilled at justification and hyphenation settings and it would be wonderful to have an option that better assist them as they develop the skills.

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Barb Binder

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Students are not skilled at justification and hyphenation settings and it would be wonderful to have an option that better assist them as they develop the skills.

Hi @Stephanie2841063708o7

It sounds like you are an InDesign instructor? Since you said you do understand how to use justification and hyphenation, investing a hour or so of class time on the topic will get your students to the same place without waiting for a future release. Nigel French’s LinkedLearning course (https://www.linkedin.com/learning/indesign-typography/create-typography-with-indesign) is a great resource, and he covers composition in lesson 6.

That said, this is a user-to-user forum (users helping other users), Please log feature requests here: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests

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~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Scott Falkner

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It would help to see examples of the text you are unsatisfied with, along with the Justification and Hyphenation settings for the paragraphs.

I usually create three flavours of paragraph styles for any text I set in large chunks, like body copy, bullet points, or numbered paragraphs. One normal, one tight, and one loose. I usually apply the Tight version when a paragraph is just a bit long, with one word hanging onto the next line. Loose is for paragraphs that I want to take up a bit more space to fill a page or column.

For narrow columns sometimes there is no option but to accept large rivers.

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