On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
Right now the body text is justified, which is the default in the Book document class. Occasionally (maybe once every couple pages) something doesn't fit right and sticks out into the right margin.
Steve, I have two approaches to solving the overfull horizontal line issue. First, I put hyphenation hints in the word where it can be broken across two lines. Second, I rewrite that sentence so it fits; sometimes reversing the word order is all that's needed.
It occurred to me that I might just make it ragged right, but smarter people than me argue both sides of that question.
Almost all typeset material is fully justified. Ragged right does not look as good and is not as easy to read. Having typeset my book with LyX, and using it for all articles, reports, and other serious writing (other than proposals and short letters), I can easily see the difference in other documents. For example, I just finished a novel (name, author, and publisher ommited to protect the guilty) that was obviously submitted as a Word document and photoset from that. Lines have large interword spaces that are typical of word processed pages, but not seen with typeset pages that adjust intercharacter spacing, too. I find it distracting to read such text. My vote is full justification. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | The Environmental Permitting Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Accelerator(TM) <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
