On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Peter Hegt wrote:
But I am wondering, is it in the `nature' of the font Palatino that is justifies worse than Times or is there something else going on?
Peter, What I read in the past is that the Times typeface was designed specifically for the London Times newspaper, which had more narrow columns than did other broadsheets or tabloids newspapers. Therefore, Palatino (which is my default LyX/LaTeX typeface, too) has characters which are broader than those of Times Roman. That written, I use US Letter size paper and only occasionally have an overfull line; that's corrected either by rewriting or offering a hyphenation suggestion for the last word. My book used a custom text area/page size specified by Springer-Verlag in their monograph class. This is in the Palatino typeface, too, and there were not more than a handfull of overfull lines in there. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Author of "Quantifying Environmental Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) | Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic" <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
