Text Formatting ⇒ \twocolumn - gap penetration?

[BinaryBen]

Hi all,
I'm not sure what is causing this - so I thought someone could point me in the direction of what is causing it.

Basically, I've added \twocolumn - and it works okay for most of the book - however, on occasion, I get the odd few words intersecting the column gap.

So any ideas what would cause this?

Thanx,

Ben

[Johannes_B]

First be sure to load package babel with the matching language. In your case it seems to be \usepackage[english]{babel} (maybe american?).

Another thing is to load package microtype, which does some magic. Your whole text block will look more even.

If you need more help, try to prepare a minimal working example so we can better reproduce the problem.

[BinaryBen]

Well I did a simple example, shown below - but it keeps happening - maybe it's the font size, indent, - not sure - any ideas?????

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\documentclass[9pt]{book}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\pagestyle{plain}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}

\twocolumn

\section{Introduction}
Once upon a time.

In the case of a collection of course documents or a connected series of articles---possibly including some on remote computers, it is convenient to use web-based access to the archived resources, as is in operation with the page you are now reading. Accordingly, the working example of this page is an easily understood template that you can modify to provide access to your

\lipsum[3-56]
\end{document}

Thanx,

Ben

[Johannes_B]

Best to use twocolumn as global option, if the whole document ist to be typeset in twocolumn mode or use package multicol if only parts should be twocolumn.

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\documentclass[%twocolumn,
9pt%not usable with standard book
]{book}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\pagestyle{plain}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{multicol}
\begin{document}

%\twocolumn
\begin{multicols}{2}
\section{Introduction}
Once upon a time.

In the case of a collection of course documents or a connected
series of articles---possibly including some on remote computers,
it is convenient to use web-based access to the archived
resources, as is in operation with the page you are now reading.
Accordingly, the working example of this page is an easily
understood template that you can modify to provide access to your

\lipsum[3-6]
\end{multicols}
\end{document}

[BinaryBen]

Hey Johannes,
thanx for your help.

Eventually, I came across the '\sloppy' define for \twocolumn - which if I set, I can fix the overlapping of the gap - also the \tolerance define.

Thanx again,

Ben

[Johannes_B]

Please be aware of the meaning for sloppy. Thats what it is.