On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:51:34PM -0800, Dave Jarvis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone seen something like this before? In the attached image, the
> "apostrophe and s" extends beyond the right-justify margin. As far as I
> have seen, it only occurs on this one page (of over 160 pages).
>
> Any idea how to resolve it?
Seemingly, TeX doesn't know how to hyphenate the word "botanist".
If you have a lot of occurrences for this word, you can tell TeX
how to hyphenate it by putting \hyphenation{bot-a-nist} in the
preamble (I hope this is the correct hyphenation), or you can insert
a discretionary hyphen for this word only. In LyX this can be done
through the "Insert->Special Formatting->Hyphenation Point" menu entry.
If TeX still fails, try telling it that it is ok to increase the space
between words by using \tolerance=400 (in ERT). The default tolerance
value is 200 and a value of 10000 is infinite as far as TeX is concerned.
You could try using larger values for the tolerance, but be warned that
the spacing may become awful.
--
Enrico
