Hyphenation Options
Please add a checkbox (or something), so that you can turn off hyphenation of words that are connected to an em dash, and for words that already have a hyphen in them. And related to that, please always break hyphenated words/phrases/URLs at the hyphen, instead of adding another hyphen.
We currently have to search for all these "bad breaks" and this feature would be a big help.
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StudioG
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Here we are in 2023 and I'm still using convoluted GREP styles to prevent bad breaks with hyphenated words, and hand-breaking long URLs in bibliography sections. Such a waste of time! Surely Adobe could develop a specialized URL dictionary that breaks lines before the period, hyphen or slash.
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Josh Langman
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Perhaps also incorporate the Chicago Manual of Style's guidelines for breaking URLs.
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Paul Nylander
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Is this a difference between InDesign's older hyphenation engine ("Proximity") and the newer open-source version ("Hunspell")? Seems like switching the hyphenation dictionary in user preferences back to Proximity solves this problem (at least for US English).
Still, I agree completely. This is a fairly common typesetting rule and should be at least an option in InDesign without resorting to contorted grep styles and such.
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Anonymous
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Yes, please!
Add option to ignore automatic hyphenation for words which contain hyphens, e.g. state-wide, non-English, etc, etc. So those words always break at hyphens.