Text Formatting ⇒ text in margin

[howard]

Hello all,

Trying to format a paper in report mode and I manually set the margins using the geometry package. I didn't like how latex was hyphenating so many words so I used the hyphenat package with the "none" option so that there was no automatic hyphenation. But now, some words are overlapping the predefined margins (on the right side of the pages). Does anyone know how to maintain uniform margins without hyphenating at line breaks? Thanks.

[meho_r]

Yes, but that's not such a good idea. Try with command:

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\sloppy

But expect large space between words. You may put it before \begin{document} to apply to whole text or in front of some paragraphs to apply from that place on ("disabling" is done with command: \fussy)

[localghost]

[…] I didn't like how latex was hyphenating so many words so I used the hyphenat package with the "none" option so that there was no automatic hyphenation. […]

Please explain that by means of an example (MWE).


Best regards
Thorsten

[frabjous]

If you're typesetting a narrow text column, you might see if microtype helps at all.

[howard]

The body of the output text looked something like:

text text text text text text text text text text text te-
xt text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text te-
xt text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text te-
xt text text text ...

It just seemed that latex was hyphenating at nearly every line break. I did find a solution (not sure of how robust it is) using the

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\hyphenpenalty=5000 \tolerance=1000

commands. Of course any better advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[frabjous]

It was hyphenating in the middle of a syllable?

Like te-
xt?

Or just, a lot of the time?

[localghost]

[…] Of course any better advice would be greatly appreciated. […]

Provide a small, complete and compilable minimal working example (MWE). This example has to reproduce the undesired behaviour clearly. In your case a MWE would at least consist of your preamble and the critical part of your text.

[howard]

Sorry localghost, I wasn't sure what MWE stood for. Anyway, below is a sample portion of my document that is giving me hyphens where I do not want them. When I use the hyphenat package with the none option (commented out), it stops the hypenation but causes the words to continue into the right hand margin. The text is actually a chapter introduction, so I put the \noindent command in to simulate a beginning paragraph of a chapter. [Edit- Look at next post - this one did not print the code properly and for some reason and is refusing to be fixed]

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\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
%\usepackage[none]{hyphenat} 
\usepackage{ae,aecompl,amsmath,amsfonts}  
\usepackage{pslatex} 
\usepackage[left=1.5in,top=0.8in,right=1in,bottom=1in,nohead,nofoot]{geometry} 

\begin{document}
\noindent Presented in this chapter are some fundamental theoretical considerations relevant to crystal structures and x-ray diffraction studies. These include crystal systems, symmetry operations, Miller indices, the Bragg and Laue conditions, and basics of x-ray scattering theory.
\end{document} 

As I mentioned in a previous reply, I did have success using the

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\hypenpenalty=5000
\tolerance=1000

commands, but a more robust solution would be desired.

[localghost]

You are using some obsolete packages. In particular

• ae (includes aecompl)
• pslatex

If you want to use another font, try the Latin Modern font package.

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\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts} 
\usepackage[left=1.5in,top=0.8in,right=1in,bottom=1in,nohead,nofoot]{geometry}
\usepackage{lmodern}

\begin{document}
\noindent Presented in this chapter are some fundamental theoretical considerations relevant to crystal structures and x-ray diffraction studies. These include crystal systems, symmetry operations, Miller indices, the Bragg and Laue conditions, and basics of x-ray scattering theory.
\end{document}

[howard]

Thanks I'll give it a try.