[Tugindia] Stopping hyphenation
Radhakrishnan CV
cvr at river-valley.org
Thu Feb 27 09:29:39 CET 2003
>>>>> "Kapil" == Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil at imsc.res.in> writes:
Kapil> Hello,
Kapil> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:15:33AM +0530, H S Rai wrote:
Rai> Is there any way to stop hyphenation in whole document. Is
Rai> that advisable?
Rai> Or any simple way to avoid hyphenation in section and
Rai> subsection. I find for most of sections, only "half word" is
Rai> there in 2nd line, which looks bad (though I believe LaTeX
Rai> do, what is good) to many. They say hyphenation may work
Rai> fine for paragraph, but in section etc it does not give good
Rai> appeal. What's your view?
Kapil> In articles, avoiding hyphenation can lead to ugliness like
Kapil> this.
With right kind of penalties and tolerance this can be controlled or
made look good. For instance, see the two column journals of Institute
of Physics where hyphenation is suppressed by default, but looks fine
without much irritating looseness of lines.
[...]
Kapil> In "foils"---which a LaTeX style for printing
Kapil> transparencies or creating presentations---hyphenation is
Kapil> avoided by setting \righthyphenmin and \lefthyphenmin to
Kapil> 100.
Define a command
\def\nohyphens{\hyphenpenalty=10000\exhyphenpenalty=10000}
and keep this in a redefined \section command.
Radhakrishnan
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