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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
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Subject: Re: Sloppy line-breaking: I didn't want it THAT sloppy!
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Date: 9 Nov 90 22:57:39 GMT
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teexdwu@ioe.lon.ac.uk (DOMINIK WUJASTYK) writes:

>\newenvironment{bettersloppy}
>  {\begin{sloppy}\emergencystretch=0.25\textwidth }
>  {\end{sloppy}}

>This is conjectural, and you should play with the 0.25 until you get
>something that works.

Someone informed my that a value of 1em was usually
sufficient. From a typographical point of view this also
makes a lot more sense. It may very well be that the
above setting allows quite horrible solutions.

Victor.