Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
I have a 210 page book and a 650 page book with many Emphasis (italics)
and /path/to/file/names that extend out into my margin.
I am using microtype package which seems to work well for formatting.
I don't want to manually place a line break before each of these problem
words or file names. I want it automated. I don't want anything in my
margin (unless maybe in lyxcode block).
Any suggestions?
I googled for this for over 30 minutes but couldn't find what I am looking
for. (It seems like I asked about this before but can't find in my
saved email.)
Like Richard, I'm bamphoozled by the emphasis part; I've never seen
emphasis screw up hyphenation (although I'll confess that I use it
sparingly) (and I'm not very observant). In general, there are four
parameters that control LaTeX's use of hypenation: \pretolerance,
\tolerance, \hyphenpenalty and \exhyphenpenalty. You can google them to
try to find details. Futzing with them might cause the emphasized terms
to hyphenate, but also might cause excessive hyphenation elsewhere. I'm
not sure, but it might be possible to redefine the \emph command to use
alternate values of some/all of these parameters just within the
emphasized text.
Using something like \url should break up the paths, although it also
will dictate a font style (tt?) that you may or may not agree with. If
\url doesn't do it for you, there's another trick, but it's rather
tedious. You can add \newcommand{\fslash}{\discretionary{}{/}{/}} to
your preamble and then change every / to \fslash{} (in ERT). That lets
LaTeX split a "word" at a forward slash, including the slash at the
start of the next line as in
... /start/of/long
/path/to/nowhere.
HTH,
Paul
