On 2010-11-25, Michael Joyner wrote:
> We are using Lyx for automatically formated PDF creation at my job.
> We ended up putty \begin{sloppy} at the very beginning of the document, and
> closing off with \end{sloppy} as the very last thing.
> It seems rather strange for the default behavior of latex to have text
> over-run the margins (IMHO)
The default behaviour is trimmed towards perfection: knowing that no
automatism is infallible, it prefers to highlight the cases where user
interaction is required. (There is also a warning message for every
overlong line in the log file and console output.)
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Steve Litt <[email protected]>wrote:
>> I already suggested starting the paragraph with \sloppy and ending it with
>> \fussy. Will that work? Is there anything else he can do? Is there a
>> package
>> he can include to guarantee justification when there's hyphenation?
Are you sure you correctly understood the problem?
Maybe its criticism of the optical adjustment of the margin by the
microtype package, which normally is thought to be one of the advances
of LaTeX typesetting. -> In this case, commenting out the line with
\usepackage{microtype} will give the desired result.
>> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
>> Subject: [Pub-forum] Lyx justification problem
>> Date: Wednesday 24 November 2010
>> To: "Publisher's Forum" <[email protected]>
>> I have just installed Lyx on a MacBook and have tried to format some test
>> copy. Everything is fine except that whenever a hyphenated word appears at
>> the end of a line it is not properly justified. The hyphenated word just
>> hangs out in the margin.
How much does it hang? Just the word or only the margin?
Does the margin look straight or ragged when looked at from a distance?
>> Have you encountered this problem and what is the solution?
There are quite a lot of similar problems and at least as many
solutions. We need more info.
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