Re: [MiKTeX] Suppressing Ligatures

[Dr F. J. W. <F.J...@qm...>]

From: "Mullen, John P. (Contractor)"
<mul...@tr...>
To: <mik...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 2:36 PM
Subject: RE: [MiKTeX] Suppressing Ligatures


> Hi Francis,
>
> That would seem to be the elegant answer.  However, for some reason line
> justification is especially bad.  Sometimes, the text extends nearly to
the
> edge of the page, other times, it ends much too soon.  Looking at the
> output, it is easy to see that the justification could be easily improved
by
> moving a few words.  It does seem that using "\sloppy" helps this, but I
> haven't had a chance to fully check it out.

It's just occured to me that the reason for the poor justification is
probably that the spaces in a monospaced font will have fixed width.  So
it's probably not such a good idea!

Francis