Text Formatting ⇒ Justification problem

[e163026]

Hi,

I'm am a newbie so sorry for the possible mistakes in advance. I was just playing with LaTeX, I encountered the following problem.

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\documentstyle{book}
\begin{document}
In 1992, Barcelona gained international recognition by hosting the olympic games which brought a massive upturn in its tourism industry. This had the effect of changing the city in ways that are still felt today with neighbourhoods renovated (and in some cases levelled) and the intense focus of modern design permeating all aspects of life in Barcelona from public buildings to something as simple as a park bench or an event poster. 
\end{document}

When I typeset this code the word olympic is out of alignment, what can I do to fix this problem? Thanks a lot.

[Johannes_B]

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\documentclass{book}
\begin{document}
In 1992, Barcelona gained international recognition by hosting
the olympic games which brought a massive upturn in its tourism
 industry. This had the effect of changing the city in ways that
 are still felt today with neighbourhoods renovated (and in some
 cases levelled) and the intense focus of modern design permeating
 all aspects of life in Barcelona from public buildings to 
something as simple as a park bench or an event poster.
\end{document}

Please take a closer look to the first line of my code and spot the difference.
This is the syntax of LaTeX2e. Latex2.09 is out of business for almost twenty years.

LaTeX for complete novices

[mas]

Hi,

I'm am a newbie so sorry for the possible mistakes in advance. I was just playing with LaTex, I encountered the following problem.

Welocme to the wonderful world of LaTeX

To start, you should always give a compilable example. Use the code tags to enclose your LaTeX text, not latex. This will help people to debug the problems easily.

Regarding the word "olympic" sticking out, it is because TeX is not able to find a good place to break the word and hence puts it as is. You should always check for such bad breaks in your document. To help in that, use

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\documentstyle[draft]{book}

The bad breaks will be shown as black blocks for you to correct.

Your specific problem can be corrected by the following:

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\documentstyle[draft]{book}
\begin{document}
In 1992, Barcelona gained international recognition by hosting the olym\-pic games 
which brought a massive upturn in its tourism industry. This had the effect of 
changing the city in ways that are still felt today with neighbourhoods renovated 
(and in some cases levelled) and the intense focus of modern design permeating 
all aspects of life in Barcelona from public buildings to something as simple as 
a park bench or an event poster. 
\end{document}

[e163026]

Thanks a lot for all your help

[cgnieder]

Hi mas and e163026,

I like to stress out what Johannes correctly but maybe not distinct enough pointed out: \documentstyle is LaTeX2.09 syntax and deprecated since June 1994! The right command since then is \documentclass.

Regards

[e163026]

Hi mas and e163026,

I like to stress out what Johannes correctly but maybe not distinct enough pointed out: \documentstyle is LaTeX2.09 syntax and deprecated since June 1994! The right command since then is \documentclass.

Regards

Thanks for the explanation, I didn't realize that, I am reading an old book

[mas]

I like to stress out what Johannes correctly but maybe not distinct enough pointed out: \documentstyle is LaTeX2.09 syntax and deprecated since June 1994! The right command since then is \documentclass.

That was a oops moment on my part I misread (don't ask me how) documentstyle as documentclass and proceeded with the answer. Thanks for catching the mistake.

Regards.