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- From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: using /looseness in LaTeX
- Date: 4 Jan 93 22:03:39
- Organization: /pearl/homes/eijkhout/.organization
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- References: <1993Jan4.221627.11410@cs.ucla.edu>
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- In-reply-to: alexis@maui.cs.ucla.edu's message of Mon, 4 Jan 93 22:16:27 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.221627.11410@cs.ucla.edu> alexis@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Alexis Wieland) writes:
-
- Using \looseness (described on pp 103-104 in The TeXbook)
- in a LaTeX document does not seem to have any effect,
- even when this is coupled with an increased \tolerance.
- Any suggestions on what I may be doing wrong,
- or is this useful tool not available in LaTeX ?
-
- Hm. I'd have to guess. Maybe your tolerance is still not enough?
-
- Or are you forgetting that 1/ \looseness has only effect for one
- paragraph, and that 2/ it has to be specified pretty much in that
- paragraph, because any \par resets it? And then maybe you
- make the ubiquitous mistake
- {\tolerance=1 A paragraph of text .... and text.}
- That is, if you enclose a paragraph in a group, be sure
- to end it in the group:
- ... and text.\par}
-
- - alexis. <alexis@cs.ucla.edu>
- --
- Victor
- ``I have seen this funny quote, if only I could find it back.''
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