Text Formatting ⇒ Formatting Warnings

[New to TeX]

I often receive several warnings while compiling the most common being

Overfull \hbox and underfull \hbox, im not quite sure what this is referring to or how to fix it. I am currently using MiKTeX

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

\hbox means a horizontal box, so there are some problems with horizontal typesetting. For example, a bad hyphenation could cause this. I would use babel and specify the used language for proper hyphenation. Furthermore, loading microtype could help.

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\usepackage{microtype}

If you would like to know details about what went wrong in your code, perhaps post a compilable minimal working example which shows such warnings, so we could help you to fix it.

Stefan

[New to TeX]

Hi,

Thanks for that - I have managed to figure out how to avoid underfull hboxes in text but I am having trouble getting rid of them in tabular and figure environments, an artificial example is attached.

Note - I assume this is what you meant by a minimal example