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I am using the Modern CV Cover letter template but the hyphenation at the end of the line is not working. Here you have an example of the cover letter with text in English and you can see how the hyphenation does not work and a lot of space is wasted in the document. The problem persists even when adding \usepackage[english]{babel} in the preamble.

I have tried the solutions proposed here and here, but they do not seem to work.

cholo14
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    Don't link to some external resources - such links dies and will make your question invalid. Add a short complete example of your code in your question. – Ulrike Fischer Feb 07 '20 at 15:32
  • I created a zip file and linked it in the question, I hope this is OK now – cholo14 Feb 07 '20 at 15:44
  • Welcome to TeX.SX! A tip: If you indent lines by 4 spaces, they'll be marked as a code sample. You can also highlight the code and click the "code" button (with "{}" on it). Please help us help you and add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. Reproducing the problem and finding out what the issue is will be much easier when we see compilable code, starting with \documentclass{...} and ending with \end{document}. – Alessandro Cuttin Feb 07 '20 at 16:13
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    No the zip file is at an external site. Your question will be archived here forever and will not make sense if the link breaks and many people would not open a link to an unknown site like that. Make a small example document and add it as text in a code block in the question. – David Carlisle Feb 07 '20 at 16:14
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    However that said, the image that you show here https://www.sharelatex.com/templates/cover-letters/moderncv-classic clearly shows that the letter is set ragged right so hyphenation is not usually required. – David Carlisle Feb 07 '20 at 16:15
  • @AlessandroCuttin the solutions in the proposed duplicate seem not to hyphenate, so I guess that is not what the OP wanted? – Marijn Feb 07 '20 at 16:45
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    @Marijn they allow hyphenation, even if the mock latin example doesn't need it. – David Carlisle Feb 07 '20 at 17:00
  • Also, never trust a template. Some of them are truly awful. – John Kormylo Feb 07 '20 at 17:08
  • @DavidCarlisle: 1) I cannot copy-paste in the body of the question a MWE, I need to paste like 6 files and I get the message "Body is limited to 30000 characters; you entered 36256." after 3 of the 6 files. How can I upload my MWE? And yes I need all the files otherwise it does not compile 2) Why did you say that hyphenation is not required? My issue is that I would like to hyphenate the words and I don't know how to do it.

    @ Marijn: you are right, the proposed solution does not hyphenate my English letter

     – cholo14 Feb 10 '20 at 09:12
  • The M in MWE stands for minimal you should not post your entire CV, start with a copy of your CV delete everything except one paragraph that is not hyphenating as you expect, then delete any definitions and packages that are not required for the example, check the remaining document demonstrates that issue. It is unlikely that you need to post ore than a dozen lines or so. It is much easier for you to make an example, starting from the document you have, than it is for anyone trying to help to guess an example given no information. – David Carlisle Feb 10 '20 at 09:16
  • Why was the question closed and flagged as duplicate? The proposed solution does not solve my issue and I still cannot hyphenate my letter – cholo14 Feb 10 '20 at 09:16
  • fo (2) when I said hyphenation is not required I meant because the examples that you linked to are using ragged right setting so tex doesn't hyphenate words, it only needs to hyphenate if justifying the right margin. – David Carlisle Feb 10 '20 at 09:17
  • the proposed solutions in the linked document re-enable justified paragraphs so will re-enable hyphenation. Unless you have code that you have not shown that is disabling it explicitly, but it is impossible to guess what code you may have. – David Carlisle Feb 10 '20 at 09:19

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