Praedor Tempus wrote: > I have long run into this problem with various versions of lyx, up to 1.2.0. I > am writing a scientific paper which includes sequence data on DNA > oligonucleotides of the form: 5'-ACCGATAACAACCCCGAC....-3' with variable > lengths from 60 to 80 characters. Upon either previewing the text or > printing, invariably lyx improperly formats these sequences such that they > blow right past the right page margin. It appears that lyx is unable to > properly apply margin settings appropriately to such text.
this has nothing to do with LyX, it's a problem of LaTeX. On the other hand, how should LaTeX know what to do with such long words, for which no hyphenation rukes exists. > Attached is a short segment of the offending lyx document. If you preview it > or print it out, the oligos will be misformatted with hyphens placed > haphazardly before a newline. I have tried inserting hard breaks in the > oligos but this is really suboptimal as I usually end up having to make other > document adjustments to margins, etc, or add text as I edit or re-edit and > this, of course, screws up the formatting all over again. Why does lyx have > such a problem with placing a hyphen at the proper page margin? Is there a > way to fix this? it's your turn to tell LaTeX what to do with these words. Define some hyphenation points (ctrl-) or choose a smaller font or ... Herbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/
