Ciro A. Soto wrote:
The knowlegeable John Culleton said in one of the lists that he could recognize if a book was typeset with MS-word by looking at the "rivers" and the lack of
but tex is *not* avoiding rivers, since it does not look at it -)
hyphenation. I then checked my 310-page book I am typesetting with context and not a single line had a hyphenated word at the end.
what happens when you say: \en \hyphenatedword{somethingverylong} when generating a format, are patterns loaded? if not, make sure that in cont-usr.tex the us hyphenation filename matches the one on your system, ushyph1.tex ushyph2.tex ushyphen.tex hyphen.tex unfortunately those names change per distribution, year, season, user, blow of the winds, etc [in a next release, already in alpha, you can use different methods, see hyphenation document on web site] Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------