> > I believe distorting the shapes of letters is even more frowned > > upon in typesetting circles than consecutive hyphenation is. > > Tadziu, were you referring to your language (where I *think* > hyphenation would always be necessary)?
Sorry if my wording was a bit vague. I was referring to hyphenation on multiple consecutive lines, which is sometimes stated as something to avoid. The point I was trying to make is that multiple consecutive hyphenated lines is still often the lesser evil compared to some of the proposed solutions. Personally, I have no problems with consecutive hyphenated lines at all, or even with hyphenating the last line of a page. What I find much more jarring is letterspacing words just to avoid larger interword spaces. I find the latter acceptable, but the former disruptive even at fairly small amounts.
