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- From: David Osborne <cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 09:46:51 GMT
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- Pierre MacKay writes (25 Jan 93 18:51:33 PST):
-
- > > Is there any way to write a macro which would allow words
- > > which can't be hyphenated to be placed on the next line,
- > > rather than be given an overfull box? Such a macro would be
- > > very useful with narrow columns.
- >
- > You might try increasing \fontdimen3 for your text font to a REALLY
- > large size. Then TeX will always be glad to stretch interword space,
- > just like Time magazine does. It might tend to reduce hyphenations
- > below the level you want, so be prepared to tweak the hyphenation
- > penalty too.
-
- A simpler and more aesthetic solution is to use \raggedright, which
- Knuth suggests (TeXbook, p.29) for exactly this problem. It can also
- be used in LaTeX (Lamport, p.112).
-
- ~~David Osborne
- Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham
-