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Old 09-08-2009, 12:11 PM   #554
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
Note that:

a): You'll get the same thing by just issuing \sloppy at the beginning of your document, though I usually define a \notsosloppy command that does not take such drastic measures. Using the microtype package will also help incresing the quality.

b) Even if the hyphenation points are found, lots of hypenated words degrade the quality just as much as underfull boxes...
Yes, I know about \sloppy, but didn't for a long time, so wanted to put it in simpler terms to avoid causing confusion and/or having to explain this correspondence. Thank you for explaining it though.

An overabundance of hyphenation will degrade quality, yes. But it's not about having a lot of them, but having the right ones.

And I do believe LaTeX is aware in its badness calculation that too much hyphenation is not great, so that's a less likely problem... though certainly a potential one. Or am I wrong?

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