September 2005
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 56m
English
Generally captions don’t need to stretch all the way across a column width. This flexibility gives you the freedom to break lines at appropriate places to create sensible phrasing. This is especially true if you center captions —you don’t want all the lines the same length anyway.
Breaking sentences into complete phrases creates a more readable caption, and since many people read only the captions, it behooves you to make them as readable as possible.
Why hyphenate in a caption?
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There is no excuse to leave a widow in a caption!

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