[texhax] Stopping hyphens in table of contents and headings

[Donald Arseneau]

"Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2 at CDC.GOV> writes:

> > From: Suzanna Laycock <s.k.laycock at sheffield.ac.uk>
> > Subject: [texhax] Stopping hyphens in table of contents and headings
> 
> > I would like to stop hyphenation in my table of contents, and 
> > my section headings.  How can I do this?

> Where are you getting hyphenation? 
> 
> * in ToC only 
> 
> * or in the body of your output

Sounds like both.  And LaTeX's standard document classes are designed 
to allow (and even require) hyphenation in both.

The answer is to use a better documentclass than the demonstration versions
that are packed with latex.  I suggest memoir or scr*.

It is so incredibly bad to format section titles with big fonts and
flush margins, that one can speculate that it is *intentionally* bad,
to encourage people to customize their documents.

> 3. use \raggedright which will require that you modify the section
> headings command(s), a non-trivial task

Section titles should *always* be ragged (right or center).


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Donald Arseneau                          asnd at triumf.ca