[Tex/LaTex] a “Overfull \hbox (9.89561pt too wide)”

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I have this warnings around, some of them seems to be solved naturally but I never really understand what do they mean.

What this means?

Edit: I would like to keep the question in more general terms, but in this particular case the source code related to this warning is the following:

\item {\bf Finalização} onde são finalizados os histogramas, eventualmente traçadas curvas de ajuste \emph{(fit)} e guardados os resultados no disco.

Possible duplicate: This question solves the debug issue of this.

PS: Sorry if this question is quite newbie.

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The allowed space between two words is given by the interwordspace (\fontdimen2\font) and interwordstretch (\fontdimen3\font). If it is not possible to set a paragraph with these lengths (with hyphenation) TeX will complain with a overfull or underfull box. Setting the \emergencystrech to a value greater than 0pt it can stretch the interwordspace to a bigger value. You can set this value individually or using \sloppy or the environment sloppypar

\documentclass[draft]{article}
\usepackage[textwidth=4.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\parindent=0pt
\begin{document}
interwordspace: \the\fontdimen2\font \\

interwordstretch: \the\fontdimen3\font \\

emergencystretch: \the\emergencystretch\par
\blindtext

\newpage
\begin{sloppypar}
interwordspace: \the\fontdimen2\font \\

interwordstretch: \the\fontdimen3\font \\

emergencystretch: \the\emergencystretch\par
\blindtext
\end{sloppypar}

\end{document}

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Please upgrade your LaTeX installation. That is one horribly old LaTeX installation
In my system (TeX Live 2014), then the only warning I get is a overfull \hbox (15.0pt too wide). 15pt is the standard size of the paragraph indentation. So you may want to use
```
\noindent
\begin{tabularx}...
```
or
```
\begin{center}
\begin{tabularx}....
...
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\end{center}
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[Tex/LaTex] What does “You have requested package `foo’, but the package provides `foo’.” mean

its a bug in the class, looks like a recent change in the github log, can't test here, no tex, but the package name constructed by

\expandafter moderncv\romannumeral

which doesn't do the right thing \expandafter does nothing there, you can ignore the warning until it's fixed.

Lines 315 to 333 of moderncv.cls should be changed into

% loads a header variant
% usage: \moderncvhead[<optional head option>]{<header variant number>}
\newcommand*{\moderncvhead}[2][]{%
  \begingroup\edef\x{\endgroup
    \noexpand\RequirePackage[#1]{moderncvhead\ifcase#2\or i\or ii\or iii\or iv\or v\fi}%
  }\x 
}

% loads a body variant
% usage: \moderncvbody[<optional body option>]{<body variant number>}
\newcommand*{\moderncvbody}[2][]{%
  \begingroup\edef\x{\endgroup
    \noexpand\RequirePackage[#1]{moderncvbody\ifcase#2\or i\or ii\or iii\or iv\or v\fi}%
  }\x 
}

% loads a footer variant
% usage: \moderncvfoot{<footer variant number>}
\newcommand*{\moderncvfoot}[1]{%
  \begingroup\edef\x{\endgroup
    \noexpand\RequirePackage{moderncvfoot\ifcase#1\or i\or ii\or iii\or iv\or v\fi}%
  }\x
}

but it's not possible to add this code in a document, because the macros are already used by the class itself.

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