RH, thank you for your help. The language is Russian. There are quite a lot of long words. I have tried different numerical arguments and following seems to work well in my case. \hyphenpenalty=2000
\exhyphenpenalty=2000 \sloppy Do you know any way to mix different paper formats? My document is A4 paper size but I need a few pages of A3 paper format for large flowsheet diagrams. Kind regards, Zorig On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:33 PM, rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > D.Zorig wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm using LyX 1.5.5 on Windows XP. My document has utf8 encoding and >> Cyrillic font. I'm getting about 10 hyphenation per page and doesn't look >> pretty. Unfortunately microtype package doesn't work with Cyrillic font. >> So no protrusion and expansion available. >> By googling, I got a understanding that hyphenation could be controlled >> with >> following commands. But I can't find their definition. >> \hyphenpenalty= >> \exhyphenpenalty= >> \righthyphenmin= >> \lefthyphenmin= >> \emergencystretch= >> \tolerance= >> I don't want to completely turn off hyphenation just reduce the number of >> hyphenation per page. I don't want to leave just 2 or 3 letters on the >> upper line and hyphenate. Preferably just stretch spaces or justify such >> line. >> >> >> > These commands all just take numerical arguments. Usually something like > 10000 makes it impossible. So > > \hyphenpenalty=10000 > > would basically make hyphentation impossible. It seems to default to 50, so > increasing it to 100 ought to give you fewer hyphens. > > That said, is your page narrow relative to your font size? Or something > along those lines? Or are you using a lot of big words? > > rh > >
