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Article #431Re: Justifying lines in LaTeX (hyphenation, \linebreak)
From: veenu.r.rashid
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 19:08
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 19:08
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In article <25JUL199201320450@msr.triumf.ca> asnd@msr.triumf.ca (Donald Arseneau) writes:
>In article <1992Jul25.043158.29496@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>, vrr@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (veenu.r.rashid) writes...
>>
>>Can anyone tell me how to break a line in LaTeX and still
>>have it justified? The line looks as follows:
>>
[... stuff deleted ...]
>But this is a last resort in fixing the appearance.
>
>You should have \sloppy in effect.
>Then to reduce the frequency of hyphenation, say
>\hyphenpenalty=200 (NOT \setcounter{hypenpenalty}{200} !!!*)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Bingo! I did a \hyphenpenalty=10000 and all my problems went away...
(well, almost all: now I have to figure out how to get a footnote
(say, a copyright message) on every page..)
>
>A good way to prevent a particular hyphenation is to say \mbox{estimates}
>or estimates\/.
>
>
>(*) \setlength{\command}{123pt} vs \setcounter{nameonly}{123} is one
>of the worstest syntax decisions I have ever seen!
>
>
>>
Thanks for the reply! If anyone knows how to tackle the second problem
(same footnote on all the pages) please email me. My email address is:
vrr@cbnewsj.att.com
I have tried \footnote{\copyright{... but this only prints the message on
the first page..
Veenu
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