more questions on LaTeX

[Simon Law]

In article <b02n20$1gr$1...@tabloid.uwaterloo.ca>, Daniel M. Berry wrote:
> TeX insists on hyphenating some words that I don't want hyphenated..
>
> e.g. proper names..
>
> How do you force a word NOT to be hyphenated?

Are you sure you cannot rewrite the text around the word so it
does not hyphenate? TeX is trying really hard to adjust the word
spacing and will only hyphenate if it needs to.

If you do control hyphenation, you will probably get underfull
of overful badness. Use the \hyphenation{} command to tell LaTeX that
there is no good way to hyphenate. E.g. to tell LaTeX to never
hyphenate the world "typesetting", use "\hyphenation{typesetting}"

See the GNU LaTeX manual:
http://www.usf.uni-osnabrueck.de/cgi-bin/info?(latex)%5Chyphenation

> Also.. is there any way to force a line to end at a particular point
> and then force spreading of the ended line..
>
> putting \\
> forces a line break.. but the broken line is not adjusted so that the
> line is both left and right justified..

Yes. Use the \linebreak command. See the above URL for
documentation on it.

Simon