[texhax] Stopping hyphens in table of contents and headings
Pierre MacKay
pierre.mackay at comcast.net
Thu Oct 25 23:03:27 CEST 2007
Donald Arseneau wrote:
>Pierre MacKay <pierre.mackay at comcast.net> writes:
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>>penalties is a good idea. \lefthyphenmin=1000 is a simple, transparent
>>integer. It does not interact with anything but the hyphenation pass, and it
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>It is indeed useful. The problem is that merely preventing hyphenation
>does not fix the document, because then you get huge gaps between words
>or words sticking into the margin. It is better to relieve TeX's need
>to hyphenate than to remove its ability. Forcing flush margins onto
>large title text is silly and wrong.
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Surely anyone who abjures the use of hyphens will also be setting ragged
right . . . .
Pierre MacKay
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