LaTeX: raggedright but with hyphenation ???

[Fritz Zaucker]

Hi TeX/LaTeX GuRus,

How can I have a paragraph flushleft (and raggedright), but with
hyphenation still turned on? I couldn't figure it out.

I would appreciate E-mail reply.

Thanks very much,

Fritz

[Scott D. Anderson]

I think

{\raggedright\rightskip=0pt plus 1in\sloppy

text text text text text
text text ...

}

will do the trick. The idea is that \raggedright lets TeX make the right margin
infinitely ragged, so it never has to pay a hyphenpenalty. The setting of
\rightskip makes TeX try to keep the rightmargin less than 1 inch wide, which
gives it an incentive to hyphenate.

At least, this works for me. If there's a better way, I'm sure someone will
correct me. :-)

Scott D. Anderson
ande...@cs.umass.edu

[Guido Sawade]

On 3 May 1995, Fritz Zaucker wrote:

> How can I have a paragraph flushleft (and raggedright), but with
> hyphenation still turned on? I couldn't figure it out.

Try
\rightskip=0pt plus .2\hsize

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Guido Sawade <saw...@physik.tu-berlin.de>
TU Berlin, Opt.Inst. PN0-1, 10623 Berlin, FRG