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http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/161829/EverythingWeKnow.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/161829/EverythingWeKnow.p...

by mazsa 14y ago

danielweber 14y ago
What's the typesetting rule that causes a column every now and then to stray over the typical right-hand margin? (Like the last non-footnote line on the first page.) Or is it just a problem with my PDF reader?
- Wintamute 14y ago
  It's not your PDF reader. It looks like this PDF has been generated with LaTex. It's quite common for the typesetting to overhang a word into the margin like that, I guess it's just to maintain the justification. If you can be bothered you can add hints into the LaTex markup to force breaks and hyphenation at certain points to alleviate it.
  - rlanday 14y ago
    Yeah, it’s called an “overfull h-box” and occurs when TeX can’t find an acceptable way to justify the paragraph without stretching or shrinking the “glue” between words more than an acceptable amount. This happens more often in shorter lines, e.g. in narrow columns, because linebreaks are more frequent and there’s less glue to play with. Sometimes you can fix it by telling it how to hyphenate words it doesn’t know how to hyphenate by default. The rules are kind of complicated; one important consideration is that you need to be able to figure out how the part of the word before the hyphenation break is pronounced before reading the second part. I think “financially” could probably have been hyphenated on the first page to eliminate the overfull h-box, but it’s already part of a hyphenated word pair, so there’s probably a rule against that.
    - danielbarla 14y ago
      Minor rearrangement / rephrasing of the sentence is another common way to fix the problem. E.g. in this case, changing "it is" to "it's" on the previous line may have been enough to pull "stating" up a line, solving the immediate issue. Of course, this may cause a number of other overfull h-boxes later on. While I understand why the problem exists, it really is one of the most perplexing issues with LaTeX, since it completely breaks through that layer of encapsulation that's supposed to be provided for you (i.e. you now care about specifics of the layout, which was supposed to be handled for you by the system).
  - drivebyacct2 14y ago
    Justified text is a nightmare on my eyes.

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/161829/EverythingWeKnow.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/161829/EverythingWeKnow.p...

by mazsa 14y ago

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/161829/EverythingWeKnow.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/161829/EverythingWeKnow.p...

danielweber 14y ago

What's the typesetting rule that causes a column every now and then to stray over the typical right-hand margin? (Like the last non-footnote line on the first page.) Or is it just a problem with my PDF reader?

Wintamute 14y ago
It's not your PDF reader. It looks like this PDF has been generated with LaTex. It's quite common for the typesetting to overhang a word into the margin like that, I guess it's just to maintain the justification. If you can be bothered you can add hints into the LaTex markup to force breaks and hyphenation at certain points to alleviate it.
- rlanday 14y ago
  Yeah, it’s called an “overfull h-box” and occurs when TeX can’t find an acceptable way to justify the paragraph without stretching or shrinking the “glue” between words more than an acceptable amount. This happens more often in shorter lines, e.g. in narrow columns, because linebreaks are more frequent and there’s less glue to play with. Sometimes you can fix it by telling it how to hyphenate words it doesn’t know how to hyphenate by default. The rules are kind of complicated; one important consideration is that you need to be able to figure out how the part of the word before the hyphenation break is pronounced before reading the second part. I think “financially” could probably have been hyphenated on the first page to eliminate the overfull h-box, but it’s already part of a hyphenated word pair, so there’s probably a rule against that.
  - danielbarla 14y ago
    Minor rearrangement / rephrasing of the sentence is another common way to fix the problem. E.g. in this case, changing "it is" to "it's" on the previous line may have been enough to pull "stating" up a line, solving the immediate issue. Of course, this may cause a number of other overfull h-boxes later on. While I understand why the problem exists, it really is one of the most perplexing issues with LaTeX, since it completely breaks through that layer of encapsulation that's supposed to be provided for you (i.e. you now care about specifics of the layout, which was supposed to be handled for you by the system).
- drivebyacct2 14y ago
  Justified text is a nightmare on my eyes.