Hyphenation not working in cover letter template

Question

I can't find the reason why hyphenation doesn't work in cover letter template document listed below.

%% start of file `template_en.tex'.
%% Copyright 2006-2010 Xavier Danaux ([email protected]).
%
% This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
% conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License version 1.3c,
% available at http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/.


\documentclass[11pt]{article}


\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{marvosym}
\usepackage{ifpdf}
\ifpdf
  \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\else
  \usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}\fi

\pagestyle{empty}

\usepackage[scale=0.775]{geometry}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\addtolength{\parskip}{6pt}

\def\firstname{Joe}
\def\familyname{Doe}
\def\FileAuthor{\firstname \familyname}
\def\FileTitle{\firstname \familyname's cover letter}
\def\FileSubject{Cover letter}
\def\FileKeyWords{\firstname \familyname, Cover letter}

\renewcommand{\ttdefault}{pcr}

\usepackage{url}
\urlstyle{tt}
\ifpdf
  \usepackage[pdftex,pdfborder=0,breaklinks,baseurl=http://,pdfpagemode=None,pdfstartview=XYZ,pdfstartpage=1]{hyperref}
  \hypersetup{
    pdfauthor   = \FileAuthor,%
    pdftitle    = \FileTitle,%
    pdfsubject  = \FileSubject,%
    pdfkeywords = \FileKeyWords,%
    pdfcreator  = \LaTeX,%
    pdfproducer = \LaTeX}
\else
  \usepackage[dvips]{hyperref}
\fi


\begin{document}
\sffamily   % for use with a résumé using sans serif fonts;
%\rmfamily  % for use with a résumé using serif fonts;
\hfill%
\begin{minipage}[t]{.6\textwidth}
\raggedleft%
{\bfseries Joe Doe}\\[.35ex]
%\small\itshape%
%street and number\\
%postcode city\\[.35ex]
\Telefon~phone 515-515-15\\
\Letter~\href{mailto:[email protected]}{[email protected]}
\end{minipage}\\[1em]
%
\begin{minipage}[t]{.4\textwidth}
\raggedright%
{\bfseries Big Company}\\[.35ex]
\small\itshape%
16 Westbourne Avenue, Rhyl, Wales LL18 1UK
\end{minipage}
\hfill % US style
%\\[1em] % UK style
\begin{minipage}[t]{.4\textwidth}
\raggedleft % US style
\today
%April 6, 2006 % US informal style
%05/04/2006 % UK formal style
\end{minipage}\\[2em]
\raggedright
Dear Sir or Madam:\\[1.5em]
%
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%Yours sincerely,\\[2em] % if the opening is "Dear Mr(s) Doe,"
Yours faithfully,\\[2em] % if the opening is "Dear Sir or Madam,"
%
%\includegraphics[scale=0.75]{signature_blue}\\
{\bfseries Joe Doe}\\
%
\vfill%
{\slshape I hereby authorize you to process my personal data included in my job application for the needs of the recruitment process (in accordance with Personnel Protection Act dated 29.08.1997 no 133 position 883)}
%{\slshape Attachment: curriculum vit\ae{}}
\end{document}

Answer 1

LaTeX currently won't hyphenate words in the body of your document because the \raggedright directive is in effect.

To enable hyphenation while keeping the "ragged-right" look, I recommend that you load the ragged2e package and execute the command \RaggedRight instead of \raggedright immediately before the "Dear Sir or Madam" greeting. When I rerun your MWE with these modifications, I get five hyphenation instances -- one for each paragraph.