Re: How to minimize hyphenation?
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 04/10/2012 02:47 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
>
>> On 04/10/2012 02:38 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've always preferred legible over pretty, and my opinion is that most
>>> time hyphenation's decrease in legibility and readability isn't worth
>>> its aesthetic contribution. I was just going to turn off hyphenation
>>> (however one would do that). But a friend reminded me that if I
>>> failed to hyphenate a word like antidisestablishmentarianism, it would
>>> do hideous things to the paragraph.
>>>
>>> So now I'd like to tell LyX not to hyphenate unless it's really,
>>> really, really, REALLY needed. I figure maybe there's some rubber-band
>>> value somewhere, and I can set it higher or lower or whatever.
>>>
>>> Anyone know of such a thing?
>>>
>>> I'll make a slightly different suggestion:
>>\usepackage{microtype}
>> In my experience, this reduces hyphenation by 80% or so.
>>
>>
I second Richard's point. The microtype package makes a huge difference,
especially if you tweak the parameters a bit (like font expansion). Notice
that, as far as I know, it requires pdflatex or luatex (xetex has partial
support only, I think). The manual is excellent, BTW.
Cheers,
S.
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Re: How to minimize hyphenation?
On 04/10/2012 02:47 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
On 04/10/2012 02:38 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
I've always preferred legible over pretty, and my opinion is that most
time hyphenation's decrease in legibility and readability isn't worth
its aesthetic contribution. I was just going to turn off hyphenation
(however one would do that). But a friend reminded me that if I
failed to hyphenate a word like antidisestablishmentarianism, it would
do hideous things to the paragraph.
So now I'd like to tell LyX not to hyphenate unless it's really,
really, really, REALLY needed. I figure maybe there's some rubber-band
value somewhere, and I can set it higher or lower or whatever.
Anyone know of such a thing?
I'll make a slightly different suggestion:
\usepackage{microtype}
In my experience, this reduces hyphenation by 80% or so.
Otherwise, read this:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=overfull
Oh, and you can also try things like:
\hyphenpenalty=200
The default is 50; infinity, as usual, is 1.
Richard
Re: How to minimize hyphenation?
On 04/10/2012 02:38 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
I've always preferred legible over pretty, and my opinion is that most
time hyphenation's decrease in legibility and readability isn't worth
its aesthetic contribution. I was just going to turn off hyphenation
(however one would do that). But a friend reminded me that if I
failed to hyphenate a word like antidisestablishmentarianism, it would
do hideous things to the paragraph.
So now I'd like to tell LyX not to hyphenate unless it's really,
really, really, REALLY needed. I figure maybe there's some rubber-band
value somewhere, and I can set it higher or lower or whatever.
Anyone know of such a thing?
I'll make a slightly different suggestion:
\usepackage{microtype}
In my experience, this reduces hyphenation by 80% or so.
Otherwise, read this:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=overfull
Richard
How to minimize hyphenation?
Hi all, I've always preferred legible over pretty, and my opinion is that most time hyphenation's decrease in legibility and readability isn't worth its aesthetic contribution. I was just going to turn off hyphenation (however one would do that). But a friend reminded me that if I failed to hyphenate a word like antidisestablishmentarianism, it would do hideous things to the paragraph. So now I'd like to tell LyX not to hyphenate unless it's really, really, really, REALLY needed. I figure maybe there's some rubber-band value somewhere, and I can set it higher or lower or whatever. Anyone know of such a thing? Thanks SteveT
