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Throughout my document, I constantly have problems with the text spreading out when there is no real reason for it. I have tried to look up how to solve it but nothing seems to work for me. I am including the code itself and a picture of the result. It can be added that this happens even when the paragraph is not divided between two different pages.

Very grateful for your help!

The necessary background information collected was regarding \textit{Mobility and the implications of Value of Time}, \textit{Authority documents regarding Stockholm}, \textit{The Swedish Transport Administration}, \textit{Cooperative-Intelligent Transportation Systems} as well as the \textit{Nordic Way} and \textit{C-Roads} initiatives.

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    sorry but you are not showing enough info. Make a small but complete example that demonstrates the issue.
    – Ulrike Fischer
    May 13 at 11:06
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    Welcome to TeX.SE! Could you edit your code to begin with your \documentclass{} and end with \end{document} , a Minimal Working Example (MWE) please. It makes copy and pasting easier when the code can be compiled and also we do not need to guess what commands or packages you are using.
    – JamesT
    May 13 at 11:18
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    Normally, \textit is not unbreakable. Somewhere you have redefined it to be so.
    – John Kormylo
    May 13 at 11:43
  • please provide an example that shows the problem
    – David Carlisle
    May 13 at 14:15

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You have to try quite hard to force TeX to make output that bad.

Above the line you see the default setting.

Below the line I disabled hyphenation, requested the paragraph was stretched over one more line than normal, and specified any amount of bad white space stretching would be accepted. This produces output smiliar to the form you showed.

\documentclass{article}
\addtolength\oddsidemargin{-4cm}
\addtolength\textwidth{4.5cm}
\begin{document}

The necessary background information collected was regarding
\textit{Mobility and the implications of Value of Time},
\textit{Authority documents regarding Stockholm}, \textit{The Swedish
  Transport Administration}, \textit{Cooperative-Intelligent
  Transportation Systems} as well as the \textit{Nordic Way} and
\textit{C-Roads} initiatives.

\bigskip

\hrule

\bigskip

\hyphenpenalty=10000
\looseness=1
\tolerance=10000
The necessary background information collected was regarding
\textit{Mobility and the implications of Value of Time},
\textit{Authority documents regarding Stockholm}, \textit{The Swedish
  Transport Administration}, \textit{Cooperative-Intelligent
  Transportation Systems} as well as the \textit{Nordic Way} and
\textit{C-Roads} initiatives.

\end{document}
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