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Subject: Re: Avoid hypens in words that end in "s"?
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Date: 12 Apr 91 19:00:07 GMT
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In article <mjd.671320132@csr> mjd@csr (Michael J Dinneen) writes:
>I am writing my thesis and see the words are getting hypenated like: graph-
>s.  This is very annoying to the eye.  Why does latex do this and how
>to fix the problem?  If there is space for the hyphen why can't the 's'
>be moved up a line?  This happens (for different words) about 5 times
>in a 60 page report.

Try including

  \lefthyphenmin = 2
  \righthyphenmin = 3

in the preamble (between \documentstyle and \begin{document}).  If that
fixes the problem, your local installation of LaTeX is broken and needs
to be fixed.  Until then you have a workaround.

BTW your news software there is also broken: mjd@csr is not a very useful
return address.

Charles Geyer
Department of Statistics
University of Chicago
geyer@galton.uchicago.edu