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From: greg@jif.berkeley.edu (Greg)
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Subject: Re: \parbox dilemma in LaTeX
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Date: 11 Feb 89 01:23:32 GMT
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In article <MRD.89Feb10181808@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) writes:
>have you tried \raggedright I think it will do what you want.

In article <50303@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> leichter@cs.yale.edu (Jerry Leichter)
writes:
>b)  If you really want to just forbid hyphenation, the following should work:
>	\parbox[t]{1in}{{\hyphenpenalty=10000 \bf #1}}

Thanks for your suggestions folks; the right answer turns out to be:

\parbox[t]{1in}{\raggedright \bf #1}

I think my previous problem was that I first tried the following, which
does NOT work:

\parbox[t]{1in}{{\raggedright \bf #1}}
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Greg