[texhax] Hyphenation problem with makeindex

[Martin Schröder]

2007/4/2, Oleg Katsitadze <olegkat at gmail.com>:
> It occurred to me that the problem you have is related to the badness.
> The index is (usually) typeset in ragged-right mode, but a good
> ragged-right setting does not just allow lines to break anywhere, it
> still does badness checking to avoid very short lines (it's somewhere
> in The TeXbook, look up \raggedright in the index).  So, your
> discretionary hyphen (\-) is ignored simply because breaking there
> would be too bad, according to TeX's notion.  The solution is to
> change TeX's notion about badness -- try tweaking \tolerance setting
> for the index.

I doubt that helps; but the ragged2e package might.

Best
   Martin