- Almost always, this is unnoticeable in the final output.
- (It can be just a point or two.) Or, only one or two characters extend past
- the margin.
- \SpecialChar LaTeX
- seems to generate at least one of these messages for just about any document
- you write.
+ This happens if \SpecialChar LaTeX
+ does not find a reasonable way to break the lines (notoriously
+ often with typewriter font, since this does not allow for automatic break
+ points).
+ In many cases, this is unnoticeable in the final output.
+ (It can be just a point or two.) Sometimes, however, the lines run rather
+ visibly into the margin; something you will not want to have in your final
+ print.
+
+\begin_inset Newline newline
+\end_inset
+
+There are several global ways to try to minimize the overfull lines.
+ Clicking
+\family sans
+Enable micro-typographic extensions
+\family default
+ in
+\family sans
+Document\SpecialChar menuseparator
+Settings\SpecialChar menuseparator
+Fonts
+\family default
+ might already improve things a lot.
+ Furthermore, \SpecialChar LaTeX
+ code such as the following in
+\family sans
+Document\SpecialChar menuseparator
+Settings\SpecialChar menuseparator
+Preamble
+\family default
+ usually reduces the overfull lines drastically (we use this in the preamble
+ of this document):
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_deeper
+\begin_layout LyX-Code
+
+\backslash
+tolerance 1414
+\begin_inset Newline newline
+\end_inset
+
+
+\backslash
+hbadness 1414
+\begin_inset Newline newline
+\end_inset
+
+
+\backslash
+emergencystretch 1.5em