From: John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>
Subject: Re: Preventing hyphenation?
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:47:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200309101847.06005.john@wexfordpress.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.51.0309101303400.32288@sirppi.helsinki.fi>
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 06:10, Mari Voipio wrote:
> I know this has been on the list earlier, but I don't seem to be able
> to parse the old messages enough to implement anything...
>
> My current (urgent) project has a bunch of words/codes with a hyphen:
> K-Patents
> PR-23-XX
> etc.
>
> These should not get a line break at the hyphen, i.e. not K-
> Patents but K-Patents or K-Pa-tents. As far as I understand it, the
> beginner's manual and the full manual only talk about how to tell
> ConTeXt where the proper hyphenation points are, but not, how to
> prevent hyphenation altogether.
>
There are a few of plain tex tricks you can try.
1. If you enclose a word in an \hbox then it should print out but not be
hyphenated.
2. If you raise the numeric value of \pretolerance then the likelihood
of the paragaph being hyphenated will be reduced.
3. If the paragraph is long then you can set \looseness=1 which may
eliminate an hyphenation somewhere along the line.
HTH
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John Culleton
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2003-09-10 10:10 Mari Voipio
2003-09-10 12:27 ` Patrick Gundlach
2003-09-10 22:47 ` John Culleton [this message]
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