Cfrgtkky

Every now and then I get this error and I don't know how to solve it. From what I understand reading other posts, it's because LaTeX doesn't know how to hyphenate some sentences and finds no good way to break the line.

In my case I have the following line:

section{Estimating the odds ratio in a case-control study}

And the following error:

Overfull hbox (7.52351pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 64--64

I've tried using - to no avail. Interestingly enough if used as an item instead of a section title there's no error.

Thanks

Edit:

The log error:

Overfull hbox (7.52351pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 64--64

T1/cmr/bx/n/14.4 Estimating the odds ra-tio in a case-control study 

 

You have

documentclass{article}



setlengthtextwidth{309.49615pt}



begin{document}

section{Estimating the odds ratio in a case-control study}

zz

end{document}

which produces

Overfull hbox (7.52351pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 6--6

You could adjust the class settings for the headings but for section headings you may want to assert manual control:

documentclass{article}



setlengthtextwidth{309.49615pt}



begin{document}

section[Estimating the odds ratio in a case-control study]

{Estimating the odds ratio\ in a case-control study}

zz

end{document}

What is worse? Self-commented MWE with self-answer (i.e., your own answer).

documentclass{article}

usepackage{lipsum}

setlengthtextwidth{309.49615pt}

begin{document}



section{Estimating the odds ratio in a \case-control study} 

To hell the limits! why bother by margins? lipsum[1][1-2] 



section{Estimating the odds ratio in a case-con-trol study} 

Ouch! Ugly hyphens! lipsum[2][1-3] 



section{Estimating the odds ratio in a case-protectlinebreak[4]control study}

Ouch! Ugly spaces! lipsum[4][1-4] 



section{Estimating the odds ratio in a case-control study}



Ugly verb|hbox|!! ... Did you noticed it? lipsum[1][1-3] 



section{Estimating OR in a case-control study} 

Ugly rewrite! And it is so exhausting... lipsum[5][1-3] 



end{document}