diff --git a/quad/quadwriter/render.rkt b/quad/quadwriter/render.rkt
index 78b8dddb..f3896ff9 100644
--- a/quad/quadwriter/render.rkt
+++ b/quad/quadwriter/render.rkt
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@
                            :font-family default-font-family
                            :font-size (number->string default-font-size)
                            :font-features default-font-features
+                           :hyphenate "true"
                            :line-height (number->string (floor (* default-line-height-multiplier default-font-size)))) qexpr)))
   (setup-font-path-table! base-dir)
   (let* ([qs (atomize q
diff --git a/quad/quadwriter/tags.rkt b/quad/quadwriter/tags.rkt
index 3e2f5d6c..e3771048 100644
--- a/quad/quadwriter/tags.rkt
+++ b/quad/quadwriter/tags.rkt
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
                        :keep-first-lines "2"
                        :keep-last-lines "3"
                        :font-size "1em"
-                       :hyphenate "true"
                        :display (symbol->string (gensym)))
                       attrs) exprs)]))