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13 questions linked to/from How can I make my text never go over the right margin by always hyphenating or breaking on word-boundaries?
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What is the meaning of \fussy, \sloppy, \emergencystretch, \tolerance, \hbadness?
There are many way to influence line breaking, and avoiding overfulls on long unbreakable pieces of text. I'm puzzled.
We are told that using \sloppy document-wide is not good ,
that an alternative ...
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Is there really no better solution to "Overfull \hbox" than adding a line break?
I am going through a rather long book to resolve the Overfull \hbox problem. Here is an example:
varies greatly from organization to organization, team to team, and
manager to manager. Innovation is ...
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long word exceeds page width
I have this word in my document:
--standard\_min\_confidence\_threshold\_for\_calling
It currently exceeds the page width. How can I make it start on the next line, so it doesn't exceed the page ...
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Why is text being placed beyond the specified line width?
I thought that I knew a few things, but looks like I have some basic misunderstanding on how TeX is supposed to typeset material. I thought that settings by the geometry package would force the text ...
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How to fill an underfull box in footnote with url?
Could someone help to correct the warning I get related to an underfull box with the following code? I have tried \hfill, hspace*{\hfill} etc with no luck.
\documentclass[twocolumn,draft]{svjour3}
\...
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When I prevent hyphenation using an \mbox, the box gets pushed into the right margin
I've used \mbox to prevent LaTeX from breaking certain long words into hyphenated pairs. Now I have a new problem: the unbroken words are extending into the right margin. Here's some minimal sample ...
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How to prevent words from running into the right margin?
I'm revising one of the final drafts of my thesis and on several pages there are words running into the right margin.
My question is whether rewording the paragraph is the only way to get rid of this ...
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Pleasing line breaks with extremely long words that must fit on the page
I'm typesetting some technical documentation that includes identifiers with very long names. It is unacceptable to break or hyphenate these names because that would look confusingly like juxtaposed ...
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`microtype`: Set Minimum Width of a Space
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I am a newbie. I use microtype package. I would like to set the minimum width of a space to a width of a regular space. However, with default settings, it is shrinked too much and ...
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Text is spilling over the margin with standard margin settings [duplicate]
I have default margin settings, but certain text is spilling over the margin boundary. It happens when the final word on the line includes a hyphen. For example, if eye-movement happens to be at the ...
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Why is a single line poking out past the right margin?
I was just trying to typeset a 10-minute document for class, but my hyphenated word decided that it was unfettered by the margin rules. How do I fix this?
The minimal working example happens to be the ...
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Some words jump out of boundary
I am using
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{
a4paper,
left=25mm,
top=26mm,
right=26mm,
bottom=26mm,
}
But some of my words jump out of my boundary.
How can I solve it?
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How to underline text from a macro when using Alex Chan's implementation of 'a really nice underline'
Following David Carlisle's answer in How to underline text from a macro including a line break?, I am attempting to adapt David Carlisle's use of \expandafter to allow linebreaks (when underlining ...
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