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What does "overfull hbox" mean? (Why is there a black mark at the end of a line?)
Quoting Phil Miller answer, for completeness:
This message means that a line of your document is too long to fit within the horizontal space on the page, and TeX couldn't find a good way to break it ...
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filecontents: This package is obsolete
The filecontents package was an extension to the filecontents environment already present in the LaTeX kernel for many years. LaTeX's version of the environment didn't allow it to be used outside of ...
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pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier (nam e{page.1}) has been already used, duplicate ignored
As requested by the comments: Another way to solve it is to disable the pageanchors for the titlepage:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[pdfpagelabels]{hyperref}
\title{...
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How to remove the warnings "Font shape `OT1/cmss/m/n' in size <4> not available" and "Size substitutions with differences" in beamer?
Add \usepackage{anyfontsize} to your preamble.
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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?
That's just TeX alerting you that it was unable to ...
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How to put a line-break in section heading?
I recently ran into a similar issue where my section title was being split across two lines, but only one or two words were ending up on the second line. I wanted to manually insert a line break so ...
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Warning: a possible image without description
From the warning you quoted, I assume that you use the acmart document clss.
To quote from the manual of version 1.56:
2.6 Descriptions of images
Blockquote
Some readers of ACM ...
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'Generic hook <name> is deprecated' warning after update
Warnings of the form:
LaTeX hooks Warning: Generic hook 'file/after/<name>' is deprecated.
(hooks) Use hook 'file/<name>/after' instead.
are due to a recent change in the ...
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You have requested document class X but the document class provides Y warning
This stems from the fact that you have PhDThesisPSnPDF.cls inside a Classes subfolder. So, the way you normally include it is to use
\documentclass[..]{Classes/PhDThesisPSnPDF}
right? Well, there ...
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Multiple PDFs with page group included in a single page warning
Martin Schröder has done a wonderful job of explaining the underlying cause, so I won’t repeat that here. Other than telling pdfLaTeX to shut up, the solution would be to remove/strip the page groups ...
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Warning: "Using fall-back BibTeX(8) backend:(biblatex) functionality may be reduced/unavailable."
The warning is issued when using the BibTeX (or BibTeX8) back-ends as these are more restricted in their functionality than Biber is. As such, some biblatex features simply won't work unless Biber is ...
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Why DON'T I get an "Overfull \hbox" warning here?
The overlay option means that the tikzpicture, or its bounding box at least, will have zero size, so as far as TeX is concerned, it doesn't stick out in the margin. However, the picture drawing ...
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Warning when adding package minted?
The fvextra package is loaded by minted, so you should load minted before csquotes.
Another thing you should do is loading hyperref last: very few packages should come later than this one and you are ...
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“warning: Text page X contains only floats.” How to suppress this warning?
The problem is explained here http://aty.sdsu.edu/bibliog/latex/floats.html.
You may find that simply adding
\clearpage
before you begin with your figures will get rid of the warning.
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Bad bibtex entries using InBook
The inbook entry type is designed for referring to a chapter of a book with a single author or set of authors. This is why you receive the warning in your first example: you can't have both an author ...
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Biblatex authoryear style & giveninits options - conflicting options warning
The full warning message I get in the .log is
Package biblatex Warning: Conflicting options.
(biblatex) '<namepart>inits' conflicts with 'uniquename=full'.
(biblatex) ...
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Warning: layout scale set to 0.5 on input line
Remove the layouts package from your preamble. It's typically used during document design processes, and not as part of your actual document setting.
If you want to see the text block frame, you can ...
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tcolorbox package returns "missing \pdf@unescapehex" warning
Using listingsutf8 with XeLaTeX is usually not a good idea.
The most option loads the tcolorbox libraries loaded by many together with
listingsutf8 external magazine vignette poster
and you ...
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How do I generate a warning for an undefined control sequence
You can use \ifcsname...\endcsname, which tests both for an undefined or a \relax control sequence:
\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\newcommand\aeset[3]{\expandafter\newcommand\csname ae@#1@#2\...
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Warning "Command \underbar has changed"
You have really nothing to worry about, provided you don't use sectsty for underlining section titles.
The package does a check on \underbar and on \underline, because it wants to redefine them but ...
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What, no warning when minipage overflows page?
This is "by design" the vertical size options of minipage and parbox are analogues (and share the code of) the horizontal size option of \makebox.
\makebox[0pt][l]{...}
hides the size of the ...
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How to ignore "Wrong length of dash may have been used." inside \cite and \newcite
for those that are looking for it just mark the line as checked
Example:
\draw[-Latex] (A) -- (B)% chktex 8
More info: How can I tell chktex that I have checked the next line?
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Undefined references warning for \AtEndDocument{\printbibliography}
biblatex does a lot of cleaning up (also with respect to .aux files and warnings) in the \AtEndDocument hook. You don't get the warning if you issue
\AtEndDocument{\printbibliography}
before loading ...
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Invalid ISBN in value of field 'isbn' (-1)
Biber does not only check the datamodel integrity, it also explicitly checks ISBNs for validity when in --validate_datamodel mode. As it turns out 978-92-807-3580-6 (9789280735806) as indicated on the ...
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Warning with footnotes: "name{Hfootnote.xx} has been referenced but does not exist"
I ran into a similar problem. Same warning, and same result (footnote links point always point to first page). Turns out, there’s some weird interaction between setspace and hyperref. The solution ...
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warning (pdf backend): pop empty color page stack 0
Well what it means is that's you've corrupted the colour stack. Unlike font changes colour is not an intrinsic attribute of a tex box, so colour changes are managed by nodes marking the change of ...
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Package caption Warning: Unsupported document class
In many cases, there are no problems in spite of the warning.
Since subfig.sty is older then captions.sty, using caption.sty is not bad choice.
If you want to understand why you get the warning, "5 ...
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Beamer Metropolis theme overfull vbox error on title page
The theme is not very careful regarding spurious spaces. If one removes the one from the titlepage definition the warning disappears (but there are more ...):
\documentclass[aspectratio=169]{beamer}
...
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"pop empty color page stack 0" with ieeecolor document class
It's a bug in ieeecolor.cls. It misuses \color with \hbox and the scope of the colour \special “leaks”. The problem narrows down to this (see how world is red too):
\documentclass{article}
\...
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