Latex...

mugsy · 07-07-2006, 12:50 AM

Is it possible to make latex use hard wraps?

This is what it cur-
ently does.

This is what I want
it to do.

raskin · 07-07-2006, 01:28 AM

set hyphenpenalty to 10000. But do you really want it ?

Tinkster · 07-07-2006, 03:38 AM

What raskin said.

Why would you want to use LaTeX if you believe that you know better
how to make good-looking documents? Just use a bleating, errrh,
....., word-processor.

Cheers,
Tink

mugsy · 07-10-2006, 02:08 PM

Yes I do know that it makes a better looking document, but I was just curious to know how. I wanted to know how so I could test it against a word processor to see if I can get the margins and everything so it looks like the output of a word processor, cause essays and stuff have standards on essay format like 1 inch margins and stuff.

Tinkster · 07-10-2006, 07:22 PM

But those are things that you'd set in your private little
essay.sty, not as individual formatting information inside
the latex file? That approach completely defeats the IDEA
of latex, which is that you (the user) DOESN'T need to worry
about those things.

Cheers,
Tink