I often see those warnings about "overfull \hbox" when I'm preparing my document. Because the document is still in the early stage, I see no point in correcting them on-the-spot – since the document will change anyway.
But I also want to get rid of that ugly overflow (by increasing the possible width of space between words), so I can show that draft to somebody.
Is there a way to do it?
Best Answer
TeX has a primitive parameter for that kind of situation:
\emergencystretch
, of which Knuth writes in the TeXbook chapter 14So you could use, for example