On 11/25/2010 01:39 AM, 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)
Let me second Gunter's remarks about this. If you want it to be entirely
automated, then this is a fine solution, but the reason it isn't the
default behavior is that, when the text does overrun the margin, this is
due to an "overful hbox" that LaTeX itself does not know how to resolve
within the parameters that have been set. The definition of \sloppy is just:
\def\sloppy{%
\tolerance 9999%
\emergencystretch 3em%
\hfuzz .5\p@
\vfuzz\hfuzz}
So it's resetting how tolerant LaTeX is of bad lines, and allowing it to
insert extra whitespace between words. Here's fussy:
\def\fussy{%
\emergencystretch\z@
\tolerance 200%
\hfuzz .1\p@
\vfuzz\hfuzz}
So you can also adjust these yourself, to more relaxed, but not
completely relaxed, limits.
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.
This is almost certainly not true, i.e., that "whenever a hyphenated
word appears", you get this problem. It will happen sometimes, for the
reasons given, but if it's happening every time, then that is just bad luck.
Richard
