On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Bryan Mitchell <br...@aberdar.net> wrote:
>
>
> On 14/02/16 18:29, Liviu Andronic wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Bryan Mitchell <br...@aberdar.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14/02/16 11:33, Liviu Andronic wrote:
>>> Thank you for your prompt reply. Here are the basic details of my
>>>        typical work.
>>>
>> Both the LyX document and PDF output attached use justification. Do
>> you expect something different?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Liviu
>>
>>
>>>
> Yes, in the example given two words are hyphenated to make
> the text fit to the margins. With justification there should be
> no hyphenation. I attach the same paragraph but produced
> by the Scribus program. There are no hyphenations because
> the word spaces are adjusted to fit the margins.
> I also attach a screen shot of the relevant Lyx box. If I highlight
> a paragraph and choose "Justified", it will not keep the choice
> but reverts to Default. If I do not highlight anything, then choose
> "Justified", it will keep the setting, but the result of the pdflatex
> output is unchanged.
> Am I misunderstanding this? Is it possible that the choice only
> affects the Lyx text?
>
In my understanding in both cases the text is "justified". But what
you seem to want is "no hyphenation" instead.

See this:
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/TextAppearance#avoidHyphenation

Regards,
Liviu


> The work that I am writing can be done using the Scribus program,
> but it is so much easier done with Lyx.
> Thank you for your patience.
>
> Bryan



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