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From: kjg@bcat1.prime.com (Ken Gartner)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Hyphenation/Changebars/[h] floats in LaTeX
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.062238@bcat1.prime.com>
Date: 8 Mar 91 11:22:38 GMT
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    [Everything is TeX, C Version 3.0 (format=lplain 90.6.12), LaTeX 2.09]

1.  Screwy hyphenation

   I deal with a lot of engineering acronyms and have gotten unwanted
hyphenation.  Is there any way to prevent these from happening again
without special-casing each "word". Here are some recent examples -- 
the "/" indicates a line break:

     M/PHALT			RPADRTR/P
     spreadsheet/s		does/n't


2.   I have seen changebars discussed her before, but have never seen 
a postscript version that doesn't require a DEC LN03.  I would like plain
postscript that dvi(2,3)ps will enjoy.


3.    Can someone explain to me how that LaTeX floats work, specifically
how the [h] behaves -- the code synopsis still leaves me clueless.  I
expect figures/tables with a single [h] to be forced where I specify
regardless of the "badness" that may result.  If I want more flexibility
I will use more letters ([htp]).  How may I enforce this (I have
already tried setting all sorts of bottomfraction/textfraction kinds of
variables with very limited success) without rewriting latex.tex (pushy
aren't I?) or failing that an sty file.

   Thank you for you patience.

kjg

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