Specifying text flow options You can set text flow options to avoid leaving just a few lines at the top or bottom of a column of flowed text. The term widow describes the first line of a paragraph that appears at the bottom of a column, and orphan refers to the last line of a paragraph that appears at the top of a column. Canvas can prevent widows and orphans in a text flow by moving the page or column break higher and sending lines to the next page or column. In addition, you can specify that all lines in a paragraph stay together, or that certain pairs of paragraphs always remain together in the same column. To modify a column break in a particular paragraph, keep all lines in a paragraph together, or keep two paragraphs together, you should change the text flow settings for the specific paragraph only. In most cases, you won’t want these settings to apply to every column break. Hyphenation settings If necessary, open the Type palette by choosing Text > Type. Click the Hyphen tab to bring it to the front. Turn hyphenation on and configure the following settings. After word beginning. Speci- fy the minimum number of let- ters that must precede a hyphen. Before word ending. Specify the minimum number of letters that must follow a hyphen. Smallest word. Specify the minimum number of letters that a word must have to be hyphenated. Consecutive line limit. Speci- fy the number of consecutive lines that can end in hyphens. For example, if four consecu- tive lines could end in hyphens but the limit is three, Canvas does not hyphenate the last word of the fourth line. Skip capitalized words. Turn this option on to prevent prop- er names and other words beginning with a capital letter from being hyphenated. Click Apply to implement the hyphenation settings.
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