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Fixing hyphenation and justification violations - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Designing a Book
Fixing hyphenation and justification violations
- [Instructor] Continuing with our theme of finessing the text, in this step we are going to fix any h and j violations: hyphenation and justification violations. We have a very useful composition preference to aid us in this. So I'll come to my preferences and if you're a Windows user, you'll find your preferences at the bottom of the edit menu. Then come to composition, h and j violations. We will now see highlighted in yellow any places where InDesign can't honor the hyphenation and justification settings that we have chosen. Now I should point out that referring back to a much earlier step when we defined the body text style, we set up the hyphenation and justification settings for that style. And because of those settings, we have relatively little yellow highlighting. That's good. So let me just remind you of those settings. I'll just come and edit the body style and justification. It's the fact that we're allowing some letter spacing variation and some glyph scaling variation…
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