horizontal alignmenthyphenationmoderncv
I'm writing a document with the help of the modernCV class, using (a modification of) the casual style. It looks like this class is penalizing hyphenation pretty severely. Why is that so? I can't find something like \hyphenpenalty= set to a very high value in moderncv.cls.
How can I allow hyphenation in the cover letter?
You need to either:
bigfoot package (suffix.sty is part of that package; there is no standalone suffix package), ormoderncv package (versions newer than 1.3.0 don't rely on suffix.sty anymore).Add the following lines in your preamble
\usepackage{xpatch}
\xpatchcmd{\cvitemwithcomment}{\bfseries}{\mdseries}{}{}
\xpatchcmd{\cvitemwithcomment}{\bfseries}{\mdseries}{}{}
so that your MWE becomes:
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{moderncv}
\moderncvtheme[blue]{classic}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\firstname{John}
\familyname{Doe}
\title{The burger flipper}
\address{The big street}{neverland}
\mobile{MyMobile000000}
\email{mymail@mymail.com}
\extrainfo{99 year-old}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\xpatchcmd{\cvitemwithcomment}{\bfseries}{\mdseries}{}{}
\xpatchcmd{\cvitemwithcomment}{\bfseries}{\mdseries}{}{}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section{Languages}
\cvlanguage{language1}{Spoken}{bla bla dygfzeiu rzegouerhg regoeru}
\cvlanguage{language2}{Barely Spoken}{}
\end{document}
Output:
Note that (thanks to Werner for the comment) you can also replace the above three lines with
\usepackage{regexpatch}
\xpatchcmd*{\cvitemwithcomment}{\bfseries}{\mdseries}{}{}
In this case, the *-variant of \xpatchcmd is used to replace both instances of \bfseries.
Instead, if you need to change it only for one instance, you can insert \mdseries (which overwrites the default \bfseries) in the second argument, for example
\cvlanguage{language1}{\mdseries Spoken}{bla bla dygfzeiu rzegouerhg regoeru}
Best Answer
It's easiest to just add the
ragged2epackage to your preambleand use
You could use any of the other justification styles as well.