Text Formatting ⇒ long bold large centered text exceeds right margin!!

[amegahed3]

Hi all,

I am a Latex beginner, and I face the following problem: whenever I try to type a long title that is centered, bold, large and underlined, it goes out of the page's right margin, instead of dividing it into two lines!!

Here is the code I use:

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}%{amsart}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[top= 1in, bottom= 1in, left= 1in, right= 1in]{geometry}
\newcommand{\HRule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.5mm}}

\begin{document}

\begin{centering}
\underline{\large{\textbf{Progress in the Special Problems Course ``8900 ALE'' Taken by Aly Megahed in Fall 2008 }}}\\
\end{centering}

\end{document}

Attached is an output pdf file that shows the problem!

Could you please help me?

Thanks.

Aly

[josephwright]

Your problem is \underline, which TeX cannot line-break (more or less). There are ways around this, but underlining is normally regarded as bad news in typeset material. Do you really need this?

By the way, I would favour doing

\begin{center}
\large\bfseries
Your text goes here.
\end{center}

as the center environment is a group, and will "trap" \bfseries and \large.

[amegahed3]

Thanks a lot, Joseph for your reply.

I do understand all what you said. But what are the ways to go around this (as I really need the underline) ?

Thanks.

Aly

[josephwright]

The soul package will do the job:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{soul}

\begin{document}

\begin{center}
  \large\bfseries
  \ul{Progress in the Special Problems Course 
    ``8900 ALE'' Taken by Aly Megahed in Fall 2008 }
\end{center}

\end{document}

[amegahed3]

Thanks a lot, Joseph. It worked perfectly. I really really appreciate your help.

Aly