Text Formatting ⇒ Text Doesn't Look Good

[smallslovak]

Good morning

I have some problems and I can't find out answers. I need your help.

1. Why does text look so bad? Why isn't text normal?

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\documentclass[slovak]{article} % - I tried book but result is the same
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{tipa}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage[a6paper, top=10mm, left=10mm, right=10mm]{geometry} % paper format

\begin{document}

\LARGE
\input{ADJ_NEW.txt}  % file of text 

\end{document}

ADJ_NEW.txt

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2. When I tried using longtable text looks good but the text is just on one page.

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\documentclass[slovak]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{tipa}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage[a6paper, top=10mm, left=10mm, right=10mm]{geometry}

\begin{document}

\LARGE
\begin{longtable}{p{80mm}}
\input{ADJ_NEW.txt}
\end{longtable}

\end{document}

ADJ_NEW.txt

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Result 2

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Thank You For Your Help

[Johannes_B]

You are running into a problem of typography. Narrow columns. Both of your examples are bad, really bad. Don't you notice the large gaps in your second example? The only sane solution is using \raggedright in your preamble.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Generally, microtype can help:

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\usepackage{microtype}

But the main issue here is that you need hyphenation because of the narrow columns, but how should LaTeX hyphenate this?

\textipa{@\textprimstress dO:.r@.b\super @l}

You can add possible hyphenation points though:

\textipa{@\textprimstress dO\-:.r@\-.b\super @l}

You may change the encoding from T1 to IL2, if this would show improvement:

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\usepackage[IL2]{fontenc}

You may play with such values in your preamble:

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\tolerance 1200
\hbadness 1200
\emergencystretch 0.8em
\hfuzz 0.3pt
\widowpenalty=10000

Similar it's mentioned in the \sloppy section in l2tabu.

Example:

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\documentclass[slovak]{article} % - I tried book but result is the same
\usepackage[IL2]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{tipa}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage[a6paper, top=10mm, left=10mm, right=10mm]{geometry} % paper format
\usepackage{amsmath}
\tolerance 1200
\hbadness 1200
\emergencystretch 0.8em
\hfuzz 0.3pt
\widowpenalty=10000
\usepackage{microtype}
\begin{document}
\LARGE
               \textbf{abrupt}                                               [\textipa{@\textprimstress br2pt}]           náhly, neočakávaný, prudký \textit{(zvrat ap.)}; strohý, úsečný, príkry \textit{(reč)}; strmý, prudký, príkry \textit{(stúpanie ap.)} 
               \textbf{acidic}                                              [\textipa{@\textprimstress sId.Ik}]           \textit{(chem.)} kyslý, kyselinový \textit{(obsahujúci kyselinu)}, kyselinotvorný 
             \textbf{adorable}                                   [\textipa{@\textprimstress dO:.r@.b\super @l}]           rozkošný, nádherný, roztomilý \textit{(ľudia, zvieratá)} 
          \textbf{adventurous}                                 [\textipa{@d\textprimstress \-ven\-.tS\super @\-r.@s}]           odvážny, smelý \textit{(ochotný riskovať ap.)}; dobrodružný; riskantný 
           \textbf{aggressive}                                             [\textipa{@\textprimstress gres.Iv}]           agresívny, bojovný, útočný \textit{(človek, zviera)}; priebojný, smelý, podnikavý \textit{(v práci ap.)} 
             \textbf{agitated}                                        [\textipa{\textprimstress \ae dZIteItId}]           rozrušený, znepokojený, nervózny, vyvedený z miery 
                \textbf{alert}                                                [\textipa{@\textprimstress l3:t}]           ostražitý, bdelý, pozorný 
\end{document}

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Sounds like some additional work to get proper hyphenation with tipa words, but I don't know an automatic solution yet, and your document is a bit special with tipa and narrow columns.

Stefan

PS: Please don't use capital letters for a whole title or text.