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algorithm2e with boxruled gives overfull hbox

I am using the algorithm2e package with the boxruled option to format my pseudo-code. However, I am getting an overfull hbox, which I suspect is due to margin/box conflicts. Does anyone have a fix ...
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What is a “Overfull \hbox (9.89561pt too wide)”?

I have this warnings around, some of them seems to be solved naturally but I never really understand what do they mean. What this means? Edit: I would like to keep the question in more general ...
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Removing an “Overfull \vbox” message caused by a nested table

I am trying to typeset a nested table, like this: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{bigstrut} \usepackage{multirow} \begin{document} \begin{tabular}{|lll|} \hline A & \multirow{2}{*}{ ...
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Overfull hbox warning when including graphics

I'm getting the error: Overfull \hbox (14.34999pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 374--375 [][] | when including graphics files. The files are in EPS format. Below is an example: \begin{figure} ...
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How to avoid overfull \hbox warning? [closed]

The following code compiles but throws this error/warning : Overfull \hbox (7.65448pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 21--21 Visually there is nothing wrong though, and the box does not cross the ...
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Persuading (la)tex “silently to go beyond the envelope of 'good taste' ” to avoid an overfull hbox

My understanding, based on reading this website, is that (la)tex performs at most three passes when trying to typeset a paragraph: one based on \pretolerance, one based on \tolerance, and one based on ...
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How do you effectively debug overfull \hbox warnings?

I still haven't found out how to effectively solve Overfull \hbox (0.80913pt too wide) has occurred while \output is active warnings. For instance, this piece of latex generates such a warning and I ...
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What is the command to highlight bad boxes in pdf?

I seem to remember a command to show bad boxes in a PDF when using latex, but googling is not helping me to remember. How can I show bad boxes in my PDF?
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Underfull hbox with \hbox to <dimen> but not with \halign

When using the \halign primitive, cells in the same column all have the same width. Hence, if one entry is very large (abcdefg below), the others will be stretched to the same size. If an entry ...
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Overfull \hbox warning when using tabular

I keep getting this warning Overfull \hbox (0.63303pt too wide) in paragraph at lines xxx--xxx` wherever I have this line in the code \begin{tabular}{p{2cm}|p{4cm}|p{3cm}|p{3cm}} It does ...
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How to centre my display math overfull hboxes?

I have an overfull hbox which I've decided to live with. Actually, several. However, since they're in \[…\], it would look better if they could remain centered, i.e. overflowing the margins equally ...
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Overfull hbox (in the middle of page) in ToC with tocloft package and cftchapaftersnum

To customize the appearance of our Table of contents we use the tocloft package. One point we would like to implement is to underline the chapter entries in the ToC. However, if we use the ...
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What are underfull hboxes and vboxes and how can I get rid of them?

Often, TeX outputs underfull hbox and vbox warnings when running and in the generated log file. What are these and how can I get rid of them?
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What does “overfull hbox” mean?

I often see output from TeX with the warning overfull hbox, badness 10000. What does this message mean?