Text Formatting ⇒ Maximum inter word space (or space between words)

[Sahas]

Please help me.
I want to increase maximum possible inter word space for whole text.
The background of a problem: I have a text and when I see dvi output, it looks like

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           Example
This is just  example  of text
with  too  long  line  due  to 
short maximum inter word space
as in this line withverylongwordthatcannot
be separated by hyphen.

I want to increase maximum interword space to get something like:

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           Example
This is just  example  of text
with  too  long  line  due  to 
short maximum inter word space
as     in      this       line 
withverylongwordthatcannot  be
separated by hyphen.

As I know that there are commands like \fontdimen2, \fontdimen3 and so on, but I do not know exactly what they mean and do not know how to use its globally (in preamble).

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Saha,

it's easier, you could simply use a sloppypar environment.

Have a look at this example:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[textwidth=5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{parskip}
\begin{document}
This is just an example  of text
with  too  long  line  due  to
short maximum inter word space
as in this line
\mbox{withverylongwordthatcannot}
be separated by hyphen
\end{document}

Standard paragraph with too long word

paragraph.png (5.83 KiB) Viewed 6327 times

Now we add sloppypar:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[textwidth=5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{parskip}
\begin{document}
\begin{sloppypar}
This is just an example  of text
with  too  long  line  due  to
short maximum inter word space
as in this line
\mbox{withverylongwordthatcannot}
be separated by hyphen
\end{sloppypar}
\end{document}

Sloppy paragraph, justified

sloppypar.png (6.3 KiB) Viewed 6327 times

As you can see, the interword space has been increased and it's justified now.

Stefan

[Sahas]

Stefan, thank you very much for answer, the problem is solved!