On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:57:37 -0400
Richard Heck <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 03/19/2012 12:17 PM, paul sutton wrote:
> > 27,underfull \hbox (badness 10,000) in paragraph
> > 31,underfull \hbox (badness 10,000) in paragraph
> > 31underfull \hbox (badness 10,000) in paragraph
> These are warnings that LaTeX had to stretch the inter-word spacing
> more than it would like to do in order to fill the line. The first is
> the first paragraph of the Introduction and is probably caused by the
> newline, so you can ignore it. The second is the first line of the
> next paragraph, and if you look at it you can see how it is kind of
> stretched out. The way to fix it is to re-write the line a bit, or
> just not to bother.
One man's opinion: If you ever start tweaking content to satisfy
format, you'd might as well switch from LyX to Scribus or some other
coffee-table-book-authoring-tool.
I've often been able to use \begin{sloppy} and \end{sloppy} to make
LaTeX less pedantic about where to break a line, and thereby cure both
these warnings and the extra space. I've found this necessary when a
paragraph contains either a URL or a piece of monospaced type.. I
consider that acceptable if done in only a few instances.
My most basic opinion is if your books' content is good, the reader
will accept formatting problems as long as they don't affect
legibility, so underfull and overfull boxes are usually no big deal.
My one exception to all of this is use of verbiage that will obviously
screw up the formatting. When tempted to use the word
"antidisestablishmentarianism", find a way to make it "people who don't
like those opposed to establishment" or some such.
HTH
SteveT
