Math & Science ⇒ Inline math spanning out of text margin

[sandsoftime]

Hi
I am having trouble with latex putting an inline math formula so that part of it falls outside the text margin. How do I force it to be put on the next line instead?

SandsofTime

[josephwright]

Post an example of what you are doing.

[sandsoftime]

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..... and the reconstructed image denoted by $\left\langle R^{q}\left(x,z,\overrightarrow{\tau},\overrightarrow{\theta},\overrightarrow{\mathbf{r}}\right)\right\rangle $ . The objects can be tracked ....

Its a fairly short expression. If I add some extra text before in the paragraph it doesn't go beyond the margins anymore and instead falls onto the next line. I could probably change some wording of the text so that the math expression doesn't happen to lie at the end of a line, but it's only a stopgap measure. I don't understand why latex would simply not shift it to the next line by itself.

[localghost]

When asked for an example, always post a complete sample document that is compilable as is. This is also called a minimal working example (MWE). I have no problem with the following sample code.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
%\usepackage[includeheadfoot,margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{lmodern}

\begin{document}
  \ldots and the reconstructed image denoted by $\bigl\langle R^{q}\bigl(x,z,\overrightarrow{\tau},\overrightarrow{\theta},\overrightarrow{\mathbf{r}}\bigr)\bigr\rangle $ . The objects can be tracked \ldots \blindtext
\end{document}

You can additionally try the microtype package to improve the typesetting quality.


Best regards
Thorsten

[phi]

I don't understand why latex would simply not shift it to the next line by itself.

TeX must fulfill certain constrains specified by parameters in its paragraph breaking algorithm. These constrains are supposed to prevent "ugly" line breaks. Although they can be weakened, I suggest to avoid that and to use a displayed equation in your case. This also solves the problem that the formula is to high to fit in one line:

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
%\usepackage[includeheadfoot,margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{lmodern}

\begin{document}

\blindtext \ldots and the reconstructed image denoted by
%
\begin{equation*}
  \left< R^{q} \left( x, z, \vec{\tau}, \vec{\theta}, \vec{\mathbf{r}} \right) \right>.
\end{equation*}
%
The objects can be tracked \ldots \blindtext

\end{document}