On 12 Oct 2013, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Am Freitag 11 Oktober 2013, 17:35:24 schrieb Anthony Campbell: > > I have completed a book in Book class using Palatino at 10pts. If I > > increase the font to 11pts this causes occasional lines to project too > > far toe the right by a few characters. > > > > AI can fix this manually but it's annoying. I thought it might be > > because I had hyphenpenalty set to 600 but turning it off makes no > > difference. > > > > Is this the expected behaviour? Can anything be done about it? > > Often, it suffices to load the package microtype (which you should do > anyway). > > Additionally, here are my standard settings to avoid overfull lines as well > as > widows and orphans. Works pretty well for me: > > \tolerance 1414 > \hbadness 1414 > \emergencystretch 1.5em > \hfuzz 0.3pt > \widowpenalty = 10000 > \vfuzz \hfuzz > \raggedbottom > > HTH > Jürgen
Many thanks for the reply. I found those settings on the Net yesterday and yes, they do fix the problem. I didn't know about microtype but I will load that as well. Incidentally, apologies to the list for inadvertently hijacking this thread - I'd meant to start a new one. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412
