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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2010-04-07 22:47:28 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2010-04-07 22:47:28 +0000 |
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FAQ-en 3.19d (7apr10)
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-hyphoff.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-hyphoff.html index 0c79537ec74..60cc03bec17 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-hyphoff.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-hyphoff.html @@ -2,19 +2,19 @@ <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label hyphoff</title> </head><body> <h3>Stopping all hyphenation</h3> -<p/>It may seem an odd thing to want to do (after all, one of TeX’s -great advertised virtues is the quality of its hyphenation) but it’s +<p/>It may seem an odd thing to want to do (after all, one of TeX’s +great advertised virtues is the quality of its hyphenation) but it’s sometimes necessary. The real problem is, that the quality of -TeX’s output is by default largely dependent on the presence of +TeX’s output is by default largely dependent on the presence of hyphenation; if you want to abandon hyphenation, something has to give. <p/>TeX (slightly confusingly) offers four possible mechanisms for suppressing hyphenation (there were only two prior to the extensions that arrived with TeX version 3). <p/>First, one can set the hyphenation penalties <code>\</code><code>hyphenpenalty</code> and -<code>\</code><code>exhyphenpenalty</code> to an ‘infinite’ value (that is to say, 10000). +<code>\</code><code>exhyphenpenalty</code> to an ‘infinite’ value (that is to say, 10000). This means that all hyphenations will sufficiently penalise the line -that would contain them, that the hyphenation won’t happen. The +that would contain them, that the hyphenation won’t happen. The disadvantage of this method is that TeX will re-evaluate any paragraph for which hyphenations might help, which will slow TeX down. @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ and the <i>hyphenat</i> package uses this technique for its <code>\</code><code>nohyphens</code> command which sets its argument without any hyphenation. You can load <i>hyphenat</i> with the command <blockquote> - <code>\</code><code>usepckage[none]{hyphenat}</code> + <code>\</code><code>usepackage[none]{hyphenat}</code> </blockquote><p> to prevent any hyphenation in a single-language document. The technique cannot work in a document in which <i>babel</i> controls @@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ font by the command \hyphenchar\font=-1 </pre> </blockquote><p> -This isn’t a particularly practical way for users to suppress -hyphenation — the command has to be issued for every font the -document uses — but it’s how LaTeX itself suppresses hyphenation +This isn’t a particularly practical way for users to suppress +hyphenation — the command has to be issued for every font the +document uses — but it’s how LaTeX itself suppresses hyphenation in <code>tt</code> and other fixed-width fonts. <p/>Which of the techniques you should use depends on what you actually want to do. If the text whose hyphenation is to be suppressed runs @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ be underfull lines to fill the space offered, while prematurely wrapping overfull lines and stretching the remainder. <p/>Alternatively, you may set the text <a href="FAQ-ragright.html">ragged right</a>, and at least get rid of the overfull lines; this technique is -‘traditional’ (in the sense that typists do it) and may be expected to +‘traditional’ (in the sense that typists do it) and may be expected to appeal to the specifiers of eccentric document layouts (such as those for dissertations), but for once their sense conforms with typographic style. (Or at least, style constrained in this curious way.) |