> 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.
Google doesn't help me. I see them mentioned a few times. But I don't see any docs that say what the values are for. I found the default values on my system. I understand that setting a huge \hyphenpenalty will disable hyphenation. I don't want to disable, but want to make it hyphenate more often. As for the "emphasis" part. I reported that wrong. (It was a false positive!). The problem is using slashes /in/a/file/name or when using "\family typewriter" (I just happened to also be using "\emph on" so thought that was it.) Thanks for the ideas. Jeremy C. Reed
