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A discretionary line break is just like a forced line break, but has the good man-
ners to disappear when the word occurs anywhere but at the end of the line,
thus avoiding the possibility of the line breaking inappropriately.

The other breaks are self-explanatory and are inserted at the position of your
cursor, introducing an invisible character into the text, which can be viewed
when you have hidden characters shown: . When you insert one
of these characters, text is forced to the next column in the current frame, to
the next threaded frame, to the next page, or to the next odd or even page.
Where you can predict the break — for example, if all chapter heads should start
on a new right-hand page (recto) — then it’s preferable to use Keep Options to
incorporate this attribute as part of the paragraph style definition.

FIGURE 9.13 The Insert Break

Characters menu (left) and
the same options available
through Keep Options as part
of a paragraph style (right).

Keep Options
As well as controlling how the lines of a paragraph are kept together, Keep
Options controls how a paragraph moves between text frames. Keep With
Previous and Keep With Next ensure that heads and subheads don’t become
separated from the body text that follows them. Applying Keep With Previous
to body text will carry a head at the bottom of a column or page over to the
next column or page, but requires only one line of body text after the head.
Alternatively, you can apply Keep With Next to the head itself and specify how
many lines of the following paragraph must be kept with it.

With Keep Lines Together, you can make sure all the lines of a paragraph move
together or that a specified number of lines move together at the beginning of
the paragraph, the end of the paragraph, or both. This prevents widows and
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FIGURE 9.14 Keep with
Previous applied to the body
text after the subhead (top)
and “Keep with Next 2 lines”
applied to the subhead
(bottom).
FIGURE 9.15 The paragraph
indicated in blue is shown
with two lines kept together
(top) and with all lines kept
together (bottom).
Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign, Second Edition
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orphans, as discussed in Chapter 5, “Letterspacing, Tracking, and Kerning.” It

is not a viable solution if you need your columns to end on the same baseline.

The Start Paragraph options ensure that certain headline levels always begin on
a new page or in a new column or frame, and are especially useful for chapter
or section heads.

Obviously, your paragraphs must break somewhere. Asking the impossible by

setting too many Keep Options will result in Keep Violations, which like H&J
Violations and Custom Tracking/Kerning can be highlighted by turning on
the Composition preference (Preferences > Composition).

FIGURE 9.16 The Start

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attribute is useful when
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FIGURE 9.17 Select Keep

Violations to highlight in
yellow where InDesign can’t
honor the specified Keep
Options.