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 wont 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.