General ⇒ Overfull \hbox

[lehe]

HI,
I am having a problem of restricting the length of a text line within the viewable width of a page as I got the error:

Overfull \hbox (179.70857pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 37--39

How to fix it? Thanks a lot!

[localghost]

Search the concerning line in the source code and let us see how it looks like. Prepare a minimal working example (MWE) if necessary.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[lehe]

Thank you!
There are two places that exceed the right border and also the dash in the first line is mis-displayed.
Here is my sample:

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\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
%\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}  % set the margins to 1in on all sides
\usepackage{graphicx}              % to include figures
\usepackage{amsmath}               % great math stuff
\usepackage{amsfonts}              % for blackboard bold, etc
\usepackage{amsthm}                % better theorem environments

\begin{document}


\section*{Discussion} 
\begin{enumerate}

\item {\it Write up a short discussion – that includes your data, along with an interpretation of their meaning.
  Is there anything special about these sequences? (Try Google, or the following link: http://www.neb. com/nebecomm/tech\_reference/restriction\_enzymes/cross\_index\_recognition\_sequences.asp)}
\end{enumerate}
My detection results on the three species' genomes are stored in M.jannaschii\_overrep.txt, M.jannaschii\_underrep.txt, H.pylori\_overrep.txt, H.pylori\_underrep.txt, H.influenzae\_overrep.txt and H.influenzae\_underrep.txt.
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi lehe,

you could try to insert \- like

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M.janna\-schii\_un\-der\-rep.txt, ... H.in\-flu\-en\-zae\_underrep.txt.

Stefan