\texttt overfull hbox problem

Question

I asked a question earlier about \verb and overfull hbox : In-line \verb -- overfull hbox problem

And regarding the solution there, changed many of my \verbs to \texttt{}s. I have come up with a new problem now. An example:

\documentclass {article}
\begin{document}
\section {Introduction}

    The entry point is in \texttt{TRCS.Main()} (\texttt{TRCS\char`\\TRCS.cs}). 
  The stateless (see \S 3.4.3) forms are started immediately, then another controller
  is invoked, namely  \texttt{Workflow}.
\end{document}

Compiling this example will show my problem. \texttt{Workflow} causes an overflow, and a rather significant one. What should I do to alleviate the problem? Thanks in advance for your help!

Answer 1

Informally speaking, TeX break lines at spaces (and a few other positions in a word, called "discretionary break"). Discretionary break is not allowed in typewriter typesetting. If there is no space in \texttt{}, it cannot break.

For your example, there is no help using \texttt instead of \verb. There are several ways to solve such kind of problem:

1. Enable microtype for pdfTeX (suggested):

   \usepackage{microtype}
   

2. Enable hythenation of TT text:

   \usepackage[htt]{hyphenat}
   

3. Use a sloppy paragraph:

   \sloppy
   

   or

   \begin{sloppypar}
   The entry point is...
   \end{sloppypar}
   

   This may cause bad spacing.

4. Enable break manually:

   \texttt{Work\allowbreak flow}
   

   This is not useful here, but may be useful for \texttt{TRCS.\allowbreak Main()}

Answer 2

You can have a look at the packages url and path. Both have pros and cons, depending on what you want. So far, I used path and am pleased with it.

Note that the command \path{} exists even without loading the path package. From what I saw, its behaviour is more or less the same, but you cannot specify the break characters.

Finally, in addition to \allowbreak already mentioned, you can also use \- to define conditional breaks. But in that case, LaTeX will put a dash at the end of the line.