[Tugindia] Stopping hyphenation

[Radhakrishnan CV]

>>>>> "Rai" == H S Rai <hsraidce at iitr.ernet.in> writes:

    Rai> Feb 27 at 9:29am +0530 Radhakrishnan CV wrote:

    >> With right kind of penalties and tolerance this can be
    >> controlled or made look good. For instance, see the two column
    >> journals of Institute of Physics where hyphenation is
    >> suppressed by default, but looks fine without much irritating
    >> looseness of lines.

    Rai> <snip>

    >> \def\nohyphens{\hyphenpenalty=10000\exhyphenpenalty=10000}

    Rai> But this disturb justification, matter goes into right margin
    Rai> some times.

That's true if you suppress hyphenation while retaining default
tolerance values.  You might change those to optimal values as well.

 \pretolerance=8000
 \tolerance=9500
 \hfuzz=0.5pt
 \vfuzz=2pt
 \hbadness=8000
 \vbadness=8000


Radhakrishnan