Text Formatting ⇒ Force last line in paragraph to justify

[masher]

How can I force the last line in a paragraph to justify to the right margin?

I am doing some micro-optimisations on my text/figure layout, and I want to insert figures and tables in the middle of paragraphs and have the text flow around them - Just the top and bottom, the figures are the full width of the text.

I would prefer to work with vanilla-LaTeX, and not have to use any external packages.

[gmedina]

Hi,

this can be achieved by adjusting the \leftskip, \rightskip and \parfillskip lengths:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate some text

\setlength\leftskip{0pt plus 1fil}
\setlength\rightskip{-\leftskip}
\setlength\parfillskip{\leftskip}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-4]

\end{document}

You can find an explanation on those parameters in the book TeX by Topic, by Victor Eijkhout, or in The TeXbook.

Edit: if you are planning to use these settings throughout your document, I would also suggest to use

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\setlength\parindent{0pt}

to avoid the situation illustrated at the end of the second paragraph in my example