apchoo@bruce.OZ (Albert P Choo) (09/12/89)
While preparing a paper, I came across a (non?)feature of LaTeX which I
cannot correct. Consider the portion of sentence which lies across 2 lines
on the output page:
... aimed at boundary and
region detection respectively. ... ^
^ |
| right margin
left margin
I had "{\em boundary and region detection\/}" in my source file. By chance,
these 4 words were split into 2 different lines and this resulted in the
slant of the character `d' overflowing into the right margin space of the page.
Does LaTeX have a way of dealing with this problem, or do I have to rephrase
my sentence and prevent it explicitly? Any help is greatly appreciated.
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-----phil@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) (09/12/89)
In article <1527@bruce.OZ> apchoo@bruce.OZ (Albert P Choo) writes: >While preparing a paper, I came across a (non?)feature of LaTeX which I >cannot correct... > ... aimed at boundary and > region detection respectively. ... ^ >I had "{\em boundary and region detection\/}" in my source file....the >slant of the character `d' overflowing into the right margin space of the page. > >Does LaTeX have a way of dealing with this problem, or do I have to rephrase >my sentence and prevent it explicitly? It's probably bad form to have a line break between "and" and "region" anyway, so I would recommend the following very complicated (:-) rephrasing: {\em boundary and~region detection\/} There is a chance (depending on how complicated the text around it is) that the tie will cause a different sort of bad break, but it's worth a try. I'm not an expert in typography, but I believe that it is not a bad thing to have an italic character hang out over the right margin. Kind of the nature of the beast, no? William LeFebvre Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Northwestern University <phil@eecs.nwu.edu>