My project has thousands of class listings in justified columns that permit up to four hyphenated lines in a row. The class title is a run-in paragraph in 7-point Helvetica bold; the class description paragraph is 7-point Helvetica (fonts/styles simplified for brevity).
1. When a title is shorter than one full line and a description either fits one short word on that first line or doesn't begin until the second line, there is often a large gap at the end of the first line. Changing spread and/or stretch often doesn't succeed until readability is sacrificed, and takes too much time to fix by hand for thousands of entries. Any way to more automatically reduce or eliminate this gap? 2. The last word of a description is usually the word "grading." Too often, it creates an "ing." widow/orphan (depending on your definition) on the last line of the paragraph. Because type is very small and set fairly tightly, it's tough to eliminate this--and impossible to hand-fix thousands of times. Increasing the number of characters required in a hyphenated suffix would result in more and/or larger internal gaps. Any way to reduce frequency of this problem? 3. The styles allow line breaks after a slash (as set in Text Options). But when the slash is in "P/NP" or "S/U" a line break looks bad and affects readability. Forcing it to the next line creates a short line above, plus it's an impractical hand-fix-thousands-of-times. Any way to allow line breaks at slashes but exempt these two cases? FM9 (moving to v11 soon) on Virtual PC Windows 7. Many Thanks, Karen
