General ⇒ Bibliography formatting problem

[texmax]

Hello i'm trying to apply some bibliography to my article however some of the possitions written in .bib file are not correctly displayed, for example this one (look at the letters spread):




These are the commands i have used in the .bib file:

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@misc{pe_website,
title =  "{Microsoft Portable Executable and Common Object File Format Specification}",
howpublished = "\url{http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/PECOFF.mspx}"
}

is there any way to solve it?


ps. at the moment i'm using

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\bibliographystyle{plain}

thanks!

[Juanjo]

Is \url a custom command? If yes, comment out its definition and, in the preamble, add \usepackage{url}

[texmax]

Well no effect. If i delete "howpublished" entry the formatting is correct - but i have no link :/

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

it's working fine for me if I use the url package.
Try this minimal working example, of course with your bib file:

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\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{url}
\begin{document}
See \cite{pe_website}.
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{myrefs}
\end{document}

With this example there's a line break in the url and no overfull or underfull box.

Stefan

[texmax]

It worked in the clean file, but it doesnt work in the original one
I have this warnings:

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/b/c4/cUnderfull/b/c0/c \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 16--19
[][]\T1//cmr//m//n//12 Microsoft Portable Ex-e-cutable and Com-
/b/c4/cUnderfull/b/c0/c \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 16--19
\T1//cmr//m//n//12 mon Ob-ject File For-mat Spec-i-fi-ca-tion.
/b/c4/cOverfull/b/c0/c \hbox (33.15053pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 16--19
\T1//cmr//m//n//12 http:////www.microsoft.com//whdc//system//platform//firmware//PECOFF.ms
px. 

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You could have mentioned that you are using the hyperref package. It has a problem with breaking hyperlinks if pdflatex isn't used. If you compile to dvi and convert to ps/pdf, try

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\usepackage{breakurl}

after loading hyperref in your preamble.

Stefan

[texmax]

I was trying the try and error method and it appears this line is causing the spread:

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}

any ideas why 12pt is bad? Or how to repair it without switching to 10pt?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

any ideas why 12pt is bad? Or how to repair it without switching to 10pt?

the problem is just more visible with the larger font size, it's not caused by it. Try breakurl.

Stefan

[texmax]

The breakurl WORKED!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH Stefan!