Better spacing for justified text by increasing the amount of hyphenation

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is there a way to make LaTeX hyphenate much more to make spacing in justified text more even? I am trying to achieve the justification used in Renaissance-era typography (Bram de Does and other typographers following tradition also do this), which seems to often use a large amount of hyphenation to achieve better spacing.



In addition to all this, InDesign (which uses the TeX line-breaking algorithm) has a slider that goes from ‘better spacing’ to ‘fewer hyphenations’. Is there a way to get something like this in LaTeX?



I tried decreasing the hyphenpenalty to 0, but this did not have the desired effect. I am wondering if it is possible to increase the penalty for bad spacing in addition to this …






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  • Making hyphenation more desirable can actually increase the number of lines.
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is there a way to make LaTeX hyphenate much more to make spacing in justified text more even? I am trying to achieve the justification used in Renaissance-era typography (Bram de Does and other typographers following tradition also do this), which seems to often use a large amount of hyphenation to achieve better spacing.



In addition to all this, InDesign (which uses the TeX line-breaking algorithm) has a slider that goes from ‘better spacing’ to ‘fewer hyphenations’. Is there a way to get something like this in LaTeX?



I tried decreasing the hyphenpenalty to 0, but this did not have the desired effect. I am wondering if it is possible to increase the penalty for bad spacing in addition to this …






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  • Making hyphenation more desirable can actually increase the number of lines.
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is there a way to make LaTeX hyphenate much more to make spacing in justified text more even? I am trying to achieve the justification used in Renaissance-era typography (Bram de Does and other typographers following tradition also do this), which seems to often use a large amount of hyphenation to achieve better spacing.



In addition to all this, InDesign (which uses the TeX line-breaking algorithm) has a slider that goes from ‘better spacing’ to ‘fewer hyphenations’. Is there a way to get something like this in LaTeX?



I tried decreasing the hyphenpenalty to 0, but this did not have the desired effect. I am wondering if it is possible to increase the penalty for bad spacing in addition to this …






spacing typography justification







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is there a way to make LaTeX hyphenate much more to make spacing in justified text more even? I am trying to achieve the justification used in Renaissance-era typography (Bram de Does and other typographers following tradition also do this), which seems to often use a large amount of hyphenation to achieve better spacing.



In addition to all this, InDesign (which uses the TeX line-breaking algorithm) has a slider that goes from ‘better spacing’ to ‘fewer hyphenations’. Is there a way to get something like this in LaTeX?



I tried decreasing the hyphenpenalty to 0, but this did not have the desired effect. I am wondering if it is possible to increase the penalty for bad spacing in addition to this …






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  • Making hyphenation more desirable can actually increase the number of lines.
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  • Making hyphenation more desirable can actually increase the number of lines.
    – egreg
    26 mins ago















Making hyphenation more desirable can actually increase the number of lines.
– egreg
26 mins ago




Making hyphenation more desirable can actually increase the number of lines.
– egreg
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You can make hypenpenalty negative, if you wish to go this way.



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documentclassarticle

usepackagelipsum
usepackage[width=15cm]geometry
usepackagemulticol

setlengthcolumnsep1cm

begindocument


beginmulticols*2
 lipsum[1]

 columnbreak

 hyphenpenalty=-200 lipsum[1] 
endmulticols*
enddocument


However, there are a number of other approaches to get better spacing in narrow columns. One is using the microtype package, that makes subtle minor adjustments to spacing to get better line breaks. See What are penalties and which ones are defined? for a discussion of various parameters that can be tweaked.






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  • Lipsum text is not really a good specimen, because it's in pseudo Latin. You may try with kantlipsum or other packages that provide English text.
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You can make hypenpenalty negative, if you wish to go this way.



Sample output



documentclassarticle

usepackagelipsum
usepackage[width=15cm]geometry
usepackagemulticol

setlengthcolumnsep1cm

begindocument


beginmulticols*2
 lipsum[1]

 columnbreak

 hyphenpenalty=-200 lipsum[1] 
endmulticols*
enddocument


However, there are a number of other approaches to get better spacing in narrow columns. One is using the microtype package, that makes subtle minor adjustments to spacing to get better line breaks. See What are penalties and which ones are defined? for a discussion of various parameters that can be tweaked.






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  • Lipsum text is not really a good specimen, because it's in pseudo Latin. You may try with kantlipsum or other packages that provide English text.
    – egreg
    13 mins ago














up vote
2
down vote













You can make hypenpenalty negative, if you wish to go this way.



Sample output



documentclassarticle

usepackagelipsum
usepackage[width=15cm]geometry
usepackagemulticol

setlengthcolumnsep1cm

begindocument


beginmulticols*2
 lipsum[1]

 columnbreak

 hyphenpenalty=-200 lipsum[1] 
endmulticols*
enddocument


However, there are a number of other approaches to get better spacing in narrow columns. One is using the microtype package, that makes subtle minor adjustments to spacing to get better line breaks. See What are penalties and which ones are defined? for a discussion of various parameters that can be tweaked.






share|improve this answer




















  • Lipsum text is not really a good specimen, because it's in pseudo Latin. You may try with kantlipsum or other packages that provide English text.
    – egreg
    13 mins ago












up vote
2
down vote










up vote
2
down vote









You can make hypenpenalty negative, if you wish to go this way.



Sample output



documentclassarticle

usepackagelipsum
usepackage[width=15cm]geometry
usepackagemulticol

setlengthcolumnsep1cm

begindocument


beginmulticols*2
 lipsum[1]

 columnbreak

 hyphenpenalty=-200 lipsum[1] 
endmulticols*
enddocument


However, there are a number of other approaches to get better spacing in narrow columns. One is using the microtype package, that makes subtle minor adjustments to spacing to get better line breaks. See What are penalties and which ones are defined? for a discussion of various parameters that can be tweaked.






share|improve this answer












You can make hypenpenalty negative, if you wish to go this way.



Sample output



documentclassarticle

usepackagelipsum
usepackage[width=15cm]geometry
usepackagemulticol

setlengthcolumnsep1cm

begindocument


beginmulticols*2
 lipsum[1]

 columnbreak

 hyphenpenalty=-200 lipsum[1] 
endmulticols*
enddocument


However, there are a number of other approaches to get better spacing in narrow columns. One is using the microtype package, that makes subtle minor adjustments to spacing to get better line breaks. See What are penalties and which ones are defined? for a discussion of various parameters that can be tweaked.







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  • Lipsum text is not really a good specimen, because it's in pseudo Latin. You may try with kantlipsum or other packages that provide English text.
    – egreg
    13 mins ago
















  • Lipsum text is not really a good specimen, because it's in pseudo Latin. You may try with kantlipsum or other packages that provide English text.
    – egreg
    13 mins ago















Lipsum text is not really a good specimen, because it's in pseudo Latin. You may try with kantlipsum or other packages that provide English text.
– egreg
13 mins ago




Lipsum text is not really a good specimen, because it's in pseudo Latin. You may try with kantlipsum or other packages that provide English text.
– egreg
13 mins ago

















 

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