[texhax] use of \rightskip

[Paul Isambert]

With \rightskip=0pt plus 1fil it should work... but I guess your subheading
macro has some other properties pertaining to space in paragraphs. Could we have
a look at it, perhaps?

Best,
Paul


Selon "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans at gmail.com>:

> I was typesetting something this morning and wasn't happy with the look of
> a chapter subheading. I decided that such headings should be set with the
> following properties:
>
> flush left
> no hyphens
> ragged right
>
> The basic idea being that there should be no overfull boxes, and that TeX
> should simply add glue at the right side of the line after as many words as
> possible have been fitted on to the line.
>
> I thought this would be simple, but I haven't found a way to do it.
>
> The flush left is easy: \noindent.
> The no hyphens is easy: \hyphenchar\subchapnamefont=-1
> But forcing TeX not to create overfull boxes has defeated me so far.
>
> I thought that something like
>   \rightskip=0pt plus 50pt
> would to it. In fact, the TeXbook says: "a person can set
>   \rightskip=0pt plus1fil
> and every line will be filled with space on the right". But when I try that
> example (which certainly seems like it should work), I get an overfull box.
> There's no sign of any space on the right.
>
> So there's clearly something I'm not understanding about \rightskip. Would
> someone please enlighten me as to what I'm missing?
>
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