Text Formatting ⇒ avoid hyphen

[rajini]

hello all,
how can i completely avoid hyphens. Now i am writing my thesis.
I played with hyphenpenalty/tolerance codes..but some lines go beyond the right margin.

thanks.

[gmedina]

Hi rajini,

as you have already experienced, suppressing all hyphenation can cause some problems; in this page of the TeX FAQ, however, you can find some suggestions:

Stopping all hyphenation.

[rajini]

Hi gmedina,

i tried but i am not able to succeed.
[1]. first i used \usepackage[none]{hyphenat}. Then no hyphen but some line go beyond the right margin of the page.
[2]. Then i tried \hyphenpenalty=9000 with \tolerance=1000. But with full limit. Here also no hyphen is formed. But same problem as in [1].
[3]. Now i used \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin setting each 32. No use. So i placed these two commands after \begin{document}. Now i get the same problem as in [1].
[4]. I dont want to do ragged right command.

The codes that i use (only a part i am posting here)

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\documentclass[paper=a4,fontsize=12pt,BCOR=20mm,DIV=15,headsepline,liststotoc,bibtotoc,cleardoubleempty,numbers=noenddot]{scrbook}
\linespread{1.3}
\KOMAoptions{DIV=last}
\usepackage{scrpage2}
\usepackage[ngerman,english]{babel}

Please help me what can i do! I dont want hyphens throughout my thesis.
thanks

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi rajini,

you could use the microtype package to improve the way of line breaking.

Stefan

[rajini]

Hi Stefan,

it is somewhat complicated to read. After looking at it i feel avoiding hyphens is not that easy and straight foreard. But i'll manage to read and let you know the result. It wonder it would make me fell like a copy editor. let us see.