»Forbidden« hyphenation near the end of a paragraph?!

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Hi there!Can it be there’s a »rule« regarding paragraphs in justified text setting, saying that there should be no hyphenation between the very last line of a paragraph and the line before it? See the hyphenated word »Vorgän-gen« near the end of the paragraph screenshot below. Such a rule would not allow that hyphenation ...Have you all ever heard of that rule, and if so, do you acknowledge and follow it?Thanks!

Huw5CCC · Answer

This is not the first time I’ve wished there were a way to capture a line of typeset text, as opposed to a sentence or paragraph.

In Indesign, using a GREP (Paragraph) Style with the following expression to apply a ‘No Break’ Character Style works for your sample text, with the ‘70’ being slightly higher than the character count for each line. It’s a bit of a hack though, and may not work out if you have a lot of very varied text.

\w(?=.{0,70}$)

Note while experimenting, it’s easier and clearer to temporarily change your No Break Character Style to be Underline instead (colour kind of works but, unlike underline, is not visible when applied to spaces, so if something’s wrong and your text will overflow, it won’t be obvious in advance).

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