10 The Hyphenation Slider
Many typographic choices are a trade-off and none more so than determining the number of hyphens in your body text. The more hyphens, the better the word spacing, but too many hyphens can make for broken reading. Based upon your personal threshold for hyphens—some people hate them, others find them useful little helpers—you can decide upon how many hyphens to allow by using the Hyphenation slider. Also, be sure to uncheck Hyphenate Last Word: a simple way to prevent your paragraphs from ending on a single syllable. Who would ever want that?
Figure 10 The same paragraph with the Hyphenation slider set to Better Spacing (left) and to Fewer Hyphens (right).