Last question! LyX is really great, these are the only problems I have at the moment.
Is there a way to force LaTeX to obey margins and page boundaries? I find it gets it right when there is just text, but often overruns margins and even pages if there are inline formulas. Even short inline formulas cause problems. Is this a bug in LaTeX?
Ideally, I would like it to obey margins whenever it is theoretically possible, which it always is in my documents.
LyX ⇒ Preventing margin overruns with formulas
Preventing margin overruns with formulas
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Re: Preventing margin overruns with formulas
I'm also getting margin overruns in the Abstract without formulas, just regular text.
Is there a way to force LaTeX to obey margins? (Some cost that can be set to infinity?) Even the most basic wordprocessors have known for decades that margins should always be obeyed.
Is there a way to force LaTeX to obey margins? (Some cost that can be set to infinity?) Even the most basic wordprocessors have known for decades that margins should always be obeyed.
Preventing margin overruns with formulas
Try inserting the LaTeX code "\sloppy" at the beginning of the document.
I can't speak for LyX, LaTeX itself does it out of typographical fussiness. It's sort of its way of getting your attention. It reports a overall hbox when it does in the log files. It knows it could push the content down to the next line, but that would result in ugly large whitespace gaps, and it doesn't want to do that either. So it tells the typesetter to fix it manually.
These features are designed for when LaTeX is used for professional typesetting. In sloppy mode it doesn't do that, and margins are respected whenever possible.
But LyX is designed for a different kind of user, and it should know to handle this for you.
In displayed equations, things a bit different. It's been awhile since I've used LyX, but there should be a way of using a split, gather or multline environment instead of a normal equation to handle breaking. Maybe a regular LyX user can comment.
I can't speak for LyX, LaTeX itself does it out of typographical fussiness. It's sort of its way of getting your attention. It reports a overall hbox when it does in the log files. It knows it could push the content down to the next line, but that would result in ugly large whitespace gaps, and it doesn't want to do that either. So it tells the typesetter to fix it manually.
These features are designed for when LaTeX is used for professional typesetting. In sloppy mode it doesn't do that, and margins are respected whenever possible.
But LyX is designed for a different kind of user, and it should know to handle this for you.
In displayed equations, things a bit different. It's been awhile since I've used LyX, but there should be a way of using a split, gather or multline environment instead of a normal equation to handle breaking. Maybe a regular LyX user can comment.
Re: Preventing margin overruns with formulas
Great; that was a quick fix! With \sloppy in the preamble, everything is respecting margins now. It looks far from sloppy!
Thanks!
Thanks!