On Tue, 03 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I've noticed some strange behavior in LyX: certain paragraphs have a
> word sticking out into the right margin, as if the line-wrapping didn't
> work correctly. To reproduce this, type the following (not including the
> quotes) into a blank document:
>
> "Secondary-structure graphics are used to present research results,
> communicate research hypotheses, and teach molecular biology. In
> addition, we have shown previously that secondary structures provide
> powerful user interface metaphors for information systems designed for
> molecular biologists. What's going on with the crazy line-wrapping?"
>
> When I do view postscript, the word "metaphor" hangs out into the right
> margin!
>
> Any suggestions? Does LyX not like my prose? :-)
(La)Tex doesn't like your prose. Too many long words. It likes short
grammatically correct Anglo-Saxon ones. :-) Put the word `as' immediatedly before
the phrase `we have shown previously', a comma after it, and delete the word
`that'. It works here with the current LyX release v1.0.4pre4, and TeTeX 0.9
Alternatively you could put the TeX caommand \sloppy as TeX ( in Evil Red Text )
immediately before `In addition', and \fussy at the end if the sentence.
the line will then be justified with the inter-word spacing bigger. This is
ugly though.
imho It's because the hyphen needed for the hyphenation of `metaphors'
will not fit in the line, and to space the line out makes the spaces
too large for TeX to tolerate. TeX hangs `metaphors' out like that so you
receive a potent signal that it needs human help.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell - Support Engineer - iOpen Technologies Ltd.
email - chris @ iopen . co . nz ( anti spam - join it up to use ).
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