Whenever you enter text in a text frame, PlanMaker will automatically hyphenate it. This is performed fully automatically in the background, as you type.
All you have to do is to make sure that the correct language is set in PlanMaker's settings (see Setting the language).
Setting the hyphenation frequency
If desired, you can specify how often you want the hyphenation function to separate words – or disable hyphenation completely. This setting can be set separately for each paragraph in a text frame.
To do so, select the relevant paragraphs in the text frame, click the group arrow
on the ribbon tab Home | group Alignment and select the desired setting for Hyphenation in the dialog box.
Alternatively, you can open the dialog box with a right-click in the text frame and select Paragraph from the context menu.
The following options are available:
Setting |
Result |
None |
No hyphenation is performed. |
Always |
Any amount of consecutive hyphenation is attempted. This is the default setting. |
Every 2 lines |
Hyphenation is attempted only in every second line. |
Every 3 lines |
Hyphenation is attempted only in every third line. |
If you select None, you disable hyphenation for the selected paragraphs completely, whereas if you select Always, the program tries to hyphenate any line of a paragraph.
When do you use the other two options? It is not always a good idea to hyphenate at every point possible. For text in narrow columns, for example, this may lead to words being split at the end of almost every line and thus to a reduction in the document's legibility. Thus, you may want to use the option Every 2 lines or Every 3 lines to instruct PlanMaker to attempt hyphenation only in every second or third line.