There doesn't seem to be a way to ask Prince to avoid hyphenation over column and (much worse) page breaks.

Any ideas of how to control this?

Surprised no one cares about this...

There is a proposal for such property:

div.chapter {  hyphenate-limit-last: spread }

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-4/#propdef-hyphenate-limit-last

I think this should go onto our roadmap, it's more elegant than writing a script to detect such eyesores.

Edited 25 May 2026 by howcome

Yes, most def, if you are willing!