Text Formatting ⇒ Paragraph Lines all Flush

[Bornin1992]

Hello everyone,

Over the holidays I decided to learn Latex.

I found a tutorial for MLA, as I am an English major, from http://jackson13.info/mla13/Documentation.pdf.

I followed the tutorial and made a sample paper. When I export it to PDF, however, all the lines are perfectly straight, whereas the lengths are uneven in Word.

Is this normal or what is the issue?

Thanks!

[Johannes_B]

Hi,

what you are describing is called justification http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justificat ... setting%29.

The Word paper you are showing is ragged right. You can alter from justified to ragged right in your LaTeX-Document, but it is not recommended for long texts.
As a starter you could read the introduction by Nicola Talbot. http://www.dickimaw-books.com/latex/novices/


Merry Christmas

[cgnieder]

Hi Bornin1992,

Welcome to the LaTeX community!

We have a list of resources. I'm sure you'll find some interesting and enlightening information there.

Best regards

[Bornin1992]

Thanks, everyone, for your responses! I thought I had submitted a reply earlier, but apparently not.

It helped a lot and I was able to search how to change the justification!

Thank you!