Text Formatting ⇒ Overfull \hbox in URL

[ghuczek]

I am having some trouble getting url's to hyphenate, to avoid the overfill \hbox situation.

Here is an example of a url I have in my .txt file:

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\url{http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/diseases/cholera/en/}

I am using \usepackage{url} in the preamble. Font size is 12 point, using the article document class.

The error message:

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Overfull \hbox (16.65001pt too wide) in paragraph

The url is too wide for the line and doesn't hyphenate.

The only workaround I have found is to use a smaller font size for the url by including the following in the preamble, which I found on Leo Breebart's site:
http://www.kronto.org/thesis/tips/url-formatting.html

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% Define a new 'leo' style for the package that will use a smaller font.
\makeatletter
\def\url@leostyle{%
	\@ifundefined{selectfont}{\def\UrlFont{\sf}}{\def\UrlFont{\footnotesize\ttfamily}}}
\makeatother
%% Now actually use the newly defined style.
\urlstyle{leo}

This works, but I am looking for something I might be able to use to keep the font size and style the same in the url's as in the rest of the document. Even using the smaller font size work-around above, if the url is too long I still end up with an overfull \hbox error.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[Johannes_B]

Hi, you gave us some information, this information would be much more helpful, if you would put them into a minimal working example using the code-button. This helps us to verify the problem and immediate testing is possible. Especially, since there is the Open in WriteLaTeX-Button.

Your workaround doesn't seem to be the best way right now.

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{hyperref}%able to do the same and even more

\begin{document}
\fbox{
\parbox{4cm}{
\url{http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/minexample/index.html}
}}
\end{document}