spacing
My objective is to fit more words within one line.
In order to show what I mean, I will exaggerate the word spacing here:
Pretend this is a normal line in the document:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
Since I want to fit more words in the same line, I would like to change the word spacing to look like:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Add more words.
What command will allow me to shrink the word spacing in the entire line?
As mentioned in comments I think that usually in such circumstances the unindented paragraphs are logically section breaks with anonymous untitled sections. So like a titled section they suppress following indentation.
Spacing and font choice could be better and with acknowledgement to Douglas Adams, the except shown in the amazon fragment is I think logically something like this:
\documentclass{book}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}
\begin{document}
\chapter{}
The house stood on a slight rise \ldots
The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and \ldots
\ldots bulldozer, found his slippers and stomped off to wash.
\vdots
Fifteen seconds later he was out of the house and lying in front of a big yellow bulldozer that was advancing up his garden path.
\section{}
Mr L. Prosser was, as they say, only human \ldots
He was by no means a great warrior \ldots
\end{document}
Which without any changes to the book layout produces this:
use parskip=half and not half*:
\documentclass[11pt, a4paper,
parskip=half,% <=====
bibliography=totoc,
final,
numbers=noenddot]{scrartcl}
Read the documentation of KOMA-Script for the difference.
Best Answer
There are a number of factors involved in font spacing, including inter word spacing, inter character spacing, inter word stretch, etc. Stefan Kottwitz' blog on Full justification with typewriter font covers all these in an example based on the Computer Modern Typewriter font (
\ttfamily,\texttt, etc.).More specifically, the following dimensions may be set for a font:
\fontdimen1\fontdimen2\fontdimen3\fontdimen4\fontdimen7\xspaceskip\hyphencharIn order to decrease the space between words, you can either change the inter word space/stretch. here are some examples that show the difference:
This is what it looks like: