On Jul 6, 2007, at 6:23 AM, Tom Schlangen wrote:
in a large text using document class "book (koma-script"), I
noticed automatic hyphenations being done across pages, which I
doubt is correct behaviour according to typesetting rules. At
least, it looks very ugly.
In the Lyx manual it is mentioned that the auto-hyphenation
actually is done by Latex (in my case: MikTex, Windows version, at
current patchlevel) according to language rules (which I did set
accordingly).
Is there a chance to influence/forbid cross-page hyphenation by
means of the LyX frontend, or is this just a MikTeX bug?
Not a bug, an intractable problem.
It can be addressed to some extent by setting
\brokenpenalty=10000
but that won't persuade LaTeX to re-flow the paragraph, but will
carry the offending line to the next page, which depending on
available glue and the flexibility of the page layout (esp. whether
or \raggedbottom is in effect) and your expectations (do you want
spreads to cross-align, how many lines short can one make pages run
&c.) may not work out.
Normally this sort of thing is addressed as one of the final
typographic adjustments (prevent the hyphenation by \mbox'ing the
text, re-run LaTeX, see if the paragraph gained or lost a line,
adjust if need be (\looseness+/-1), see if some other bad hyphenation
appeared, repeat until the page comes out as desired).
Ages ago, when I was [EMAIL PROTECTED] I posted a lengthy description
of my process for this sort of thing to the Typo-L mailing list ---
mostly common-sense derived from experience you might find it useful
to save you from some working at cross-purposes.
William
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William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications
