LaTeX: Ragged right and no hyphenation as a document default.

September 26, 2007 1:08 PM

LaTeX: Ragged right and no hyphenation as a document default.

I have colleague who uses the computer to read PDF files to him out loud. PDF documents with hyphenation "sound" funny because of the mid-word line breaks. Thus, I would like my LaTeX documents to be unhyphenated. I suspect that without hyphenation, the document would look better to some one who visually reads the document if the paragraphs were ragged right (i.e., left justified).

Is there a simple option to do both of these things at the document-level?

posted by GarageWine to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Best answer: To get rid of hyphenation, you can use the hyphenat package. Once you have it:

\usepackage[none]{hyphenat}
\begin{document}
\raggedright
...
\end{document}
posted by beniamino at 1:22 PM on September 26, 2007

A few other options are described here.
posted by jenh at 8:03 PM on September 26, 2007

Hrm, or here and here.
posted by jenh at 8:05 PM on September 26, 2007

Response by poster: Thanks for the answers. The documents looks OK without hyphenation. I looks worse with ragged right (even with the ragged2e package).
posted by GarageWine at 11:14 AM on September 27, 2007