Latex: Justify without hyphenation
May 20, 2009
As per others, one of the greatest power of latex is how it hyphenates. However, in my opinion its always better to have the text justified without any hyphenation. Atleast, its better for the readers (I received this comment from many of my readers). So, I am for the MS Word style justification rather than latex-style hyphenation.
I found two working ways of doing so:
- You can use these lines in the preamble of your document (before \begin{document}):
\tolerance=1
\emergencystretch=\maxdimen
\hyphenpenalty=10000
\hbadness=10000This streches the lines and suppresses all the hyphenation. Works pretty well.
- Or you can suppress hyphen character completely by using
\hyphenchar\font=-1
However, this has the problem of not justifying the lines, and as a result you will have zigzagged right edge of your document. To get rid of overfull boxes, use the command:
\sloppy
Thank you! I used this in my thesis and it works well ;o)
A wonderful juxtaposition of both the MS-Word and LaTeX styles is the use of the microtype package. The margin kerning is beautiful, and even though I allowed hyphenation with a much lower penalty, there were no mid-word breaks in my book. Hyphenated words were the only places that line breaks occurred for non-spaces, but the right margin and inter-word spacings looked better than anything I have ever seen. Reading the print produced this way was a pleasure, and easy on the eyes.
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Thank you very much, it’s very helpful. And can you please explain the use of the command of the first kind? I’m trying to learn Latex.
Hi,
The first set of commands work by first tolerating such things as non-aligned lines, and then stretching the lines to the maximum dimension of the page (for justification). And then it penalizes the use of hyphen character so that latex stops using it.
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