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Article #10367Re: LaTeX: Hyphenation Problem
From: geyer
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 16:43
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 16:43
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In article <1991Jun19.135807.3082@fys.ruu.nl> spit@fys.ruu.nl (Werenfried Spit) writes: > True, but the problem remains, as TeX (without special tricks) will > not hypnhenate words containing an explicit hyphen. Even if the patterns > tell clearly how each of the constituing members could be hyphenated. That is because TeX does the Right Thing. It is not correct to further hyphenate words already containing a hyphen, unless nothing else can be done. Generally a copyeditor can avoid the troublesome hyphen by rearranging a word or two somewhere in the paragraph. TeX is for typesetting of the highest quality. It can't do what you want without compromising that quality. Charles Geyer Department of Statistics University of Chicago geyer@galton.uchicago.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!stanford.edu!agate!spool.mu.edu!mips!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!midway!news From: geyer@galton.uchicago.edu Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: LaTeX: Hyphenation Problem Message-ID: <1991Jun19.164316.16358@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 19 Jun 91 16:43:16 GMT Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 22