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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-hyphoff.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-hyphoff.html index b5224ca3221..918039bbbe6 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-hyphoff.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-hyphoff.html @@ -2,32 +2,32 @@ <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 +<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 hyphenation; if you want to abandon hyphenation, something has to give. -<p>TeX (slightly confusingly) offers four possible mechanisms for +<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 +<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). This means that all hyphenations will sufficiently penalise the line 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. -<p>Second, one can select a language for which no hyphenation patterns +<p/>Second, one can select a language for which no hyphenation patterns exist. Some distributions create a language <code>nohyphenation</code>, and the <i>hyphenat</i> package uses this technique for its <code>\</code><code>nohyphens</code> command which sets its argument without any hyphenation. -<p>Third, one can set <code>\</code><code>left-</code> and/or <code>\</code><code>righthyphenmin</code> to a +<p/>Third, one can set <code>\</code><code>left-</code> and/or <code>\</code><code>righthyphenmin</code> to a sufficiently large value that no hyphenation could possibly succeed, since the minimum is larger than the length of the longest word TeX is willing to hyphenate (the appropriate value is 62). -<p>Fourth, one can suppress hyphenation for all text using the current +<p/>Fourth, one can suppress hyphenation for all text using the current font by the command <blockquote> <pre> @@ -38,34 +38,34 @@ 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 +<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 for less than a paragraph, your only choice is the no-hyphens language: the language value is preserved along with the text (in the same way that the current font is); the values for penalties and hyphen minima active at the end of a paragraph are used when hyphenation is calculated. -<p>Contrariwise, if you are writing a multilanguage document using the +<p/>Contrariwise, if you are writing a multilanguage document using the <i>babel</i> package, you <em>cannot</em> suppress hyphenation throughout using either the no-hyphens language or the hyphen minima: all those values get changed at a <i>babel</i> language switch: use the penalties instead. -<p>If you simply switch off hyphenation for a good bit of text, the +<p/>If you simply switch off hyphenation for a good bit of text, the output will have a jagged edge (with many lines seriously overfull), and your (La)TeX run will bombard you with warnings about overfull -and underfull lines. To avoid this you have two options. You may use -<code>\</code><code>sloppy</code> (or its environment version <code>sloppypar</code>), and -have TeX stretch what would otherwise be underfull lines to fill the space -offered, and wrap other lines, while prematurely wrapping overfull -lines and stretching the remainder. 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 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.) +and underfull lines. To avoid this you have two options. +<p/>The simplest route is to use <code>\</code><code>sloppy</code> (or its environment version +<code>sloppypar</code>), and have TeX stretch what would otherwise +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 +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.) <dl> <dt><tt><i>hyphenat.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyphenat.zip">macros/latex/contrib/hyphenat</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyphenat.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyphenat/">browse</a>) </dl> -<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=hyphoff">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=hyphoff</a> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=hyphoff">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=hyphoff</a> </body> |