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<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&rsquo;s
-great advertised virtues is the quality of its hyphenation) but it&rsquo;s
+<p/>It may seem an odd thing to want to do (after all, one of TeX&#8217;s
+great advertised virtues is the quality of its hyphenation) but it&#8217;s
sometimes necessary. The real problem is, that the quality of
-TeX&rsquo;s output is by default largely dependent on the presence of
+TeX&#8217;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 &lsquo;infinite&rsquo; value (that is to say, 10000).
+<code>\</code><code>exhyphenpenalty</code> to an &#8216;infinite&#8217; value (that is to say, 10000).
This means that all hyphenations will sufficiently penalise the line
-that would contain them, that the hyphenation won&rsquo;t happen. The
+that would contain them, that the hyphenation won&#8217;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&rsquo;t a particularly practical way for users to suppress
-hyphenation &mdash; the command has to be issued for every font the
-document uses &mdash; but it&rsquo;s how LaTeX itself suppresses hyphenation
+This isn&#8217;t a particularly practical way for users to suppress
+hyphenation &#8212; the command has to be issued for every font the
+document uses &#8212; but it&#8217;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
-&lsquo;traditional&rsquo; (in the sense that typists do it) and may be expected to
+&#8216;traditional&#8217; (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.)