: What is the difference between InDesign Paragraph composer and Single line composer? In the new InDesign CC under the Paragraph options there are 4 types of paragraph: adobe world ready single

@Speyer780

"Paragraph composer" means that ID will shuffle hyphens and line breaks throughout an entire paragraph to make it "look better" according to some arcane Adobe algorithm.

"Single-line composer" means ID will only hyphenate where its internal dictionaries and your hyphenation settings tell it to hyphenate on a per-line basis, and other than checking "number of hyphens in a row," it won't rearrange your paragraph.

(Personally I get furious when Adobe tries to think it can do a better typesetting job than I can; if I put in a hyphen or a soft return, then by Thor I want it there, and I don't want the software telling me it doesn't like it.)

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