Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Monospace problems

[Enomis]

Hello,
I have to write a document with a monospace font. After the usage of:

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\renewcommand*\familydefault{\ttdefault}

The text blocks are not well rendered anymore. It seems hyphenation and word-wrapping does not work correctly. I use Koma-script book for the document.

Thanks for your help

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Obviously hyphenation is disabled with your monospaced font. And with a monospaced font, also spaces between words are fixed, which prevents justification.

Here's an example showing a way how you can enable hyphenation and even full justification. It uses the everysel package.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{everysel}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\ttdefault}
  \EverySelectfont{%
  \fontdimen2\font=0.4em% interword space
  \fontdimen3\font=0.2em% interword stretch
  \fontdimen4\font=0.1em% interword shrink
  \fontdimen7\font=0.1em% extra space
  \hyphenchar\font=`\-% to allow hyphenation
}
\begin{document}
\section{Test}
\begin{minipage}{0.7\textwidth}
  \blindtext
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

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For further explanation, perhaps have a look at: Full justification with typewriter font, there I explained it earlier in my blog.

With scrbook, you probably would like to have chapter and section headings in typewriter font too. They are sans serif by default, you can change it by

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\setkomafont{sectioning}{\normalfont\bfseries}

which gives typewriter as it's now the default font.

Stefan