\hyphenpenalty=10000
\hbadness=10000

\PassOptionsToPackage{hyphens}{url}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[top=1.3in, bottom=1.5in, right=1.7in, left=1.7in]{geometry}

\usepackage[scale=0.82]{plex-mono}
\usepackage[scale=0.87]{plex-sans}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\defaultfontfeatures{LetterSpace=1.05}
\setmainfont{Sabon}
%\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}

\usepackage{titling}

\setlength{\parskip}{0.5em}
\renewcommand\refname{\bfseries Bibliography and references}

\usepackage[
%    backref=page
]{hyperref}

\hypersetup{
    colorlinks,
    citecolor=red,
    filecolor=black,
    linkcolor=teal,
    urlcolor=teal
}

\newenvironment{myquote}
{
    \list{}
    { \leftmargin=0.4in\rightmargin=0.4in}
\item[]
}
{\endlist}

\titleformat{\section}{\large\bfseries}{}{0em}{}



\setlength{\droptitle}{-3cm}

\pretitle{\vspace{0.3in}\begin{flushleft}\Large\bfseries}
\posttitle{\par\end{flushleft}}
\preauthor{\vspace{0.1in}\begin{flushleft}}
\postauthor{\end{flushleft}}
\predate{\begin{flushleft}}
\postdate{\par\end{flushleft}}