How to emulate justified, non-hyphenated environment from Word/Adobe/etc.?

Question

I would like to emulate a 'justify' environment as seen in most WYSIWYG editors.

Each line should extend its spacing to fit the maximum possible width.
No words should be hyphenated. (Using \hbox or hyphenat has not worked due to items extending over the page margins).

How do I achieve this? I've had no luck so far with ragged2e.

\hyphenchar=-1 will disable hyphention, you probably need \sloppy to compensate but are you sure you want that? Surely even Word uses hyphenation doesn't it? (I don't use it myself but I assume it does?) — David Carlisle, Nov 10 '22 at 23:26
The answers to this question may help: How to avoid using \sloppy document-wide to fix overfull \hbox problems? — barbara beeton, Nov 10 '22 at 23:51

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 11 '22 at 08:12

I'm not sure why one would strive for bad typesetting such as what you get from word processors when you disable hyphenation.

Anyway…

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\setmainfont{Calibri}
% how to obtain bad typesetting
\hyphenpenalty=10000
\exhyphenpenalty=10000
\emergencystretch=\maxdimen
%%%
\frenchspacing % no extended end-of-sentence space
\begin{document}
%%%
% just to reproduce your column width, not something
% to be used in real documents
\settowidth{\hsize}{Contrary to popular belief, Lorem ipsum}
%%%
\noindent\lipsum[1]
\end{document}

You might have added the red squigglies ! – Thruston Nov 11 '22 at 08:21 — Thruston, Nov 11 '22 at 08:21

How to emulate justified, non-hyphenated environment from Word/Adobe/etc.?

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