Make the contents of a sentence fit to a line?

Question

I have been working on a resume. However, some of the text is going beyond a line. For instance, the "Thesis topic" here exceeds the single line as seen:

Here is the code:

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{calc}

\reversemarginpar

\usepackage[paper=letterpaper,
            includefoot, % Uncomment to put page number above margin
            marginparwidth=1.2in,     % Length of section titles
            marginparsep=.05in,       % Space between titles and text
            margin=0.5in,               % 1 inch margins
            includemp]{geometry}

\setlength{\parindent}{0in}

\renewcommand{\section}[1]{\pagebreak[3]%
\vspace{1.3\baselineskip}%
\phantomsection\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{#1}%
\noindent\llap{\scshape\smash{\parbox[t]{\marginparwidth}{\hyphenpenalty=10000\raggedright #1}}}%
\vspace{-\baselineskip}\par}

\begin{document}

\section{Education}
M.S., Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX\hfill\textbf{Dec 20XX}\\
Thesis: \emph{On Accommodating Spatial Dependence in Bicycle and Pedestrian Injury Counts by Severity Level}\\
Adviser: Dr. ABC

\end{document}

If we were to compile this code the "Level" in Thesis topic overflows into the next line. That is the issue at hand. Is it possible to make the text fit to that one line in anyway?

Thanks for the inputs!

Answer 1

Use \resizebox and the package graphicx. Another recommended package is microtype. Put for example \usepackage[shrink=100]{microtype} in the preamble of the MWE and see the effect without \resizebox

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{calc}

\reversemarginpar

\usepackage[paper=letterpaper,
            includefoot, % Uncomment to put page number above margin
            marginparwidth=1.2in,     % Length of section titles
            marginparsep=.05in,       % Space between titles and text
            margin=0.5in,               % 1 inch margins
            includemp]{geometry}

\setlength{\parindent}{0in}

\renewcommand{\section}[1]{\pagebreak[3]%
\vspace{1.3\baselineskip}%
\phantomsection\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{#1}%
\noindent\llap{\scshape\smash{\parbox[t]{\marginparwidth}{\hyphenpenalty=10000\raggedright #1}}}%
\vspace{-\baselineskip}\par}

\begin{document}

\section{Education}
M.S., Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX\hfill\textbf{Dec 20XX}\\
\resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{Thesis: \emph{On Accommodating Spatial 
Dependence  in Bicycle and Pedestrian Injury 
Counts by  Severity Level}\\
}

Thesis: \emph{On Accommodating Spatial Dependence in Bicycle and Pedestrian Injury Counts by Severity Level}\\
Adviser: Dr. ABC

\end{document}