Text Formatting ⇒ Komascript full justification

[Pangur]

Does anyone know how to make paragraph text fully aligned in Komascript. I want text to be flush on both right and left. I am not interest in anything that ends up with ragged right, nor with ragged left.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Full justification, both left and right, is the default. Take a look (click on "Open in Overleaf" if you like).

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\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\section{Test}
\blindtext
\end{document}

You may have a (perhaps implicit) \raggedright in the code that disables the justification.

Stefan

[Johannes_B]

It could also be possible that you used \centering on the titlepage without proper grouping.

[Pangur]

Thanks, Stefan. That must be why when I looked in the Manual, it gave every option but that the default.

Thanks, again.

[Pangur]

Thanks, Johannes_B.

I think I had a centering left over from my front cover/ title page.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Yes, have a \centering always within curly braces { ... } or within an environment. An environment, such as figure or table, limits the effect of this command (any local command). Or one can use \begin{center} ... \end{center} for centered text such as on the title page,

Stefan

[Pangur]

I had the package ragged2e but commented out. I removed it altogether. There were still bits of the text sticking into the right margin, and other parts not even reaching the margin. I decided to use \sloppy, which gave me exactly what I was looking for. I am hoping that there is no real drawback to this.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

\sloppy can fix it, though it may have a drawback that some inter word spaces may become to big with such enforced justification.

There are ways to improve justification:

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\usepackage[english]{babel}% or choose your language
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}% important for hyphenation of words with accents
\usepackage{microtype}% optimized justification via improved microtypography on character level

And if you use default standard fonts Computer Modern (PDF font can become blurry with the default font with T1 encoding), I would switch to Latin Modern (similar but improved):

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\usepackage{lmodern}

If you try this instead of \sloppy, does it get better already?

Stefan

[Pangur]

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\usepackage[english]{babel}% or choose your language
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}% important for hyphenation of words with accents
\usepackage{microtype}% optimized justification via improved microtypography on character level

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\usepackage{lmodern}

If you try this instead of \sloppy, does it get better already?
Stefan

I was using babel and fontenc already, but I added microtype and lmodern instead of \sloppy, and the justification became really good. I did not like the faint lmodern as it is not so good easy reading for public speaking. The font that I was using was sorceanspro. However, i am going through a few to find one that makes good contrasts between bold and normal, etc.
Thanks for the tip. I shall try to use \sloppy sparingly, and concentrate on finding a font that works for my purposes instead. That way, I might not need \sloppy at all. Thanks for your advice.

[Pangur]

Tried several different fonts now, without \sloppy but with microtype. Works like it should! Thanks, Stefan