[texhax] hyphenation ...
William F. Adams
wadams at atlis.com
Tue Nov 16 16:41:22 CET 2004
On Nov 15, 2004, at 2:00 PM, David Lesmond wrote:
> A journal (Journal of Financial Economics) does NOT want
> hyphenation. Unfortunately, TeX hyphenates so well that forcing no
> hyphenation using:
>
> \hyphenpenalty=10000
> \exhyphenpenalty=10000
>
> causes the tolerance to be exceeded and nasty blocks placed at the end
> of the line where hyphenation should occur. Is there any way to get
> TeX to not hyphenate and still leave the text without the nasty blocks
> at the end of the line and still get reasonable looking output? Any
> help here? bye ...
As quoted in _The TeXbook_ (source at the end):
> When the author objects to [a hyphenation]\/
> he should be asked to add or cancel or substitute
> a word or words that will prevent the breakage.
> \smallskip
> Authors who insist on even spacing always,
> with sightly divisions always,
> do not clearly understand the rigidity of types.
> \author T. L. ^{DE VINNE}, {\sl Correct Composition\/} (1901) % p138,
> p206
Hmm, that last is in the public domain --- anyone know if it's
available on-line?
A cursory search doesn't show it.
Anyway, like the old saying goes, ``quick, cheap, good --- pick any
two''. Similarly, as Robin noted, for setting text, you've got to
compromise on something --- either you hyphenate to keep lines looking
decent, re-write the text, or accept that occasionally w/ /sloppy & the
like thing will be ugly.
William
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