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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,BCOR10mm,DIV11,toc=listof,parskip=full]{scrbook}

class and two columns there via "\twocolumn". It works fine mostly but in some instances of the texts involved I have the situation that part of the text of the left column is not put into the next line, and thus seen half into the right column.

Interestingly it seems that there is some connectionn to () there as it always happened with text put in paranthesis. (Body) ,....

Is this a known limitation there that () text is being problematic? And how can I circumvent this problem?

Edit:

AS asked in the comments. As it seems the probblem only happens when something inside () is at the end of a line (in this case "Longevity" reaches into the 2nd column).

    \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,BCOR10mm,DIV11,toc=listof,parskip=full]{scrbook}

    \usepackage[english]{babel}
    \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
    \usepackage{amsmath}
    \usepackage{graphicx}
    \usepackage{booktabs}            
    \usepackage{multicol}            


    \title{title \\*
           title 2nd part}
    \subtitle{Species book}
    \author{author}
    \date{}

    \begin{document}
    \maketitle

    \newpage

    \tableofcontents
    \twocolumn

    \chapter{chapter}

    \section{section}

    \subsection{Advantages}
    \noindent\textbf{Dragons health}: Dragons regenerate X points of body per hour in their natural form and Y body per hour in their disguised form.
    \textit{Dragons can regenerate wounds (BODY) extremely fast and even regrow limbs. They regenerate the fastest in their natural form.
    The only wounds they are not able to heal at an accelerated rate are wounds taken from unnatural sources like magic or wounds taken from other dragons
    claws, tails, teeth or breathes.}

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    \noindent\textbf{Ageless beings}: +4 CP
    \textit{Life Support (Longevity: Immortal) (5 Active Points); Unified Power (Dragon; -1/4)}


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    \end{document}

Also as it could be important: I'm using writelatex.com there to write the document (although not sure if it is only limited to there or a general latex phenomenon.

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  • You should really show us a minimal working example (MWE), since this could be related to the content included inside the ().
    – Werner
    Commented Jul 20, 2014 at 19:46
  • put up an excerpt there tnx
    – Thomas
    Commented Jul 20, 2014 at 19:52
  • 1
    @ThomasE. A MWE is a little bit more than an excerpt ;-)
    – user31729
    Commented Jul 20, 2014 at 19:53
  • would that be enough or should enough text be added that the multi column takes effect? (those are 2 text locations where the phenomenon happens)
    – Thomas
    Commented Jul 20, 2014 at 19:58
  • @ThomasE: Well, it is not complete so far ;-)
    – user31729
    Commented Jul 20, 2014 at 20:07

1 Answer 1

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You will see the problem replicated with/without ():

enter image description here

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,BCOR10mm,DIV11,toc=listof,parskip=full]{scrbook}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\twocolumn

\begin{document}

\noindent\textbf{Ageless beings}: +4 CP
\textit{Life Support (Longevity: Immortal) (5 Active Points); Unified Power (Dragon; -1/4)}

\noindent\textbf{Ageless beings}: +4 CP
\textit{Life Support Longevity: Immortal (5 Active Points); Unified Power (Dragon; -1/4)}

\end{document}

Since you're most likely going to use longevity quite a lot in this document, add

\hyphenation{lon-gev-i-ty}

to your document preamble. It will add the hyphenation pattern for longevity to the list of existing hyphenations:

enter image description here

Note that you may still receive overfull \hbox warnings, which depend on your paragraph construction. Typically these are removed when reformatting the paragraph text, perhaps using \raggedright or even including microtype.

Here is an example with full justification (top) and \raggedright (bottom):

enter image description here

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  • and what can be done in the case of (BODY)? In the original text it had the same problem.
    – Thomas
    Commented Jul 20, 2014 at 20:14
  • @ThomasE.: What about attempting a \raggedright document layout? Columns are very narrow with your settings, making it difficult to find sufficient spacing to correct the layout. \raggedright will break a line if the subsequent word doesn't fit. The ragged2e package provides similar functionality with hyphenation support.
    – Werner
    Commented Jul 20, 2014 at 20:17
  • 1
    raggedright corrected the problem tnx
    – Thomas
    Commented Jul 20, 2014 at 20:27

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