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Evaluate typographical beauty of a document (widow, orphans, hyphens, etc) in order to optimize the page geometry
When finalizing documents, one of the last things I do is usually to play with the page geometry to improve the overall layout: get rid of a few orphans or widows, reduce the number of hyphenations, ...
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smarter hyphenation for narrow columns?
I know how to turn off hyphenation via \nohyphens{.....} (from hyphenat). But what I'd really like would be to hyphenate smartly. What I mean by this should hopefully be made clear by the following ...
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Hyphenating words with archaic spellings
I often work with texts from the 17- to 1800s that (in addition to now obsolete words) contain familiar words in slightly different spelling. The language of these texts, and of the ones I'm writing, ...
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Enable automatic hyphenation for Cthulhu-style's document
This question is based on the following thread:
How do I make my document look like it was written by a Cthulhu-worshipping madman?
,where doncherry has provided a nice answer with the highest rate.
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Is there a special hyphen-symbol to be used between capital letters?
In words consisting of small letters, the - hyphen seems right. In words (abbreviations, acronyms) consisting of capital letters, the common hyphen appears (at least imho) to be placed too low and to ...
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Ligature suppression with proper hyphenation and comprehensive word list?
[Update: It's been pointed out that my question(s) here weren't clear (or were too hidden). So I inserted red stars at the points where the questions appear.]
In The TeX Book, D.E.K. gives "shelfful" ...
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Hyphenating a verse range
I am typesetting verses using bibleref and sometimes verse ranges get cut in the end of lines. For example, in:
Jean 3.16-18
the cut might happen right after the "-" (which is actually typeset as ...
