问题
I've written a document in LaTeX, using two-column format, 11pt, times font. Many of my words appear hyphenated, and for every description list item, I get a badbox warning (no problems visible in the output though). How can I fix this?
回答1:
you should set a hyphenation penalty somewhere in your preamble:
\hyphenpenalty=750
The value of 750 suited my needs for a two column layout on letter paper (8.5x11 in) with a 12 pt font. Adjust the value to suit your needs. The higher the number, the less hyphenation will occur. You may also want to have a look at the hyphenatpackage, it provides a bit more than just hyphenation penalty.
回答2:
While, yes, you could make TeX less picky or even go the ragged option, this is best fixed by the microtype package. Just loading it should do the trick:
\usepackage{microtype}
It provides two features to improve the typesetting of paragraphs:
- Margin kerning: characters, especially punctuation, will protrude a small fraction into the margin. Practically, this has the effect of very slightly increasing the line length and (IMO) visually looks very nice.
- Font expansion: as well as stretching/shrinking the space between words to create a flush paragraph, the characters themselves are stretched/shrunk by very small amounts (less than one percent). This is visually imperceptible at the character level but, surprisingly, makes a huge difference at the paragraph level.
回答3:
I've always just used \raggedright for this, but I've never done that for an entire paper. This FAQ (which is one of my go-to LaTeX resources) recommends the ragged2e package.
Oh, and a side note: I never pay attention to bad boxes unless I can see them in the output. This is probably dumb, but LaTeX is much pickier than I am.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1609837/latex-breaking-up-too-many-words