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From: phil@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre)
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Subject: Re: \em font overflows past right margin
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Date: 12 Sep 89 11:48:32 GMT
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In article <1527@bruce.OZ> apchoo@bruce.OZ (Albert P Choo) writes:
>While preparing a paper, I came across a (non?)feature of LaTeX which I
>cannot correct...
>                                ... aimed at boundary and
>            region detection respectively. ...           ^
>I had "{\em boundary and region detection\/}" in my source file....the
>slant of the character `d' overflowing into the right margin space of the page.
>
>Does LaTeX have a way of dealing with this problem, or do I have to rephrase
>my sentence and prevent it explicitly?

It's probably bad form to have a line break between "and" and "region"
anyway, so I would recommend the following very complicated (:-)
rephrasing:

	{\em boundary and~region detection\/}

There is a chance (depending on how complicated the text around it is)
that the tie will cause a different sort of bad break, but it's worth
a try.

I'm not an expert in typography, but I believe that it is not a bad
thing to have an italic character hang out over the right margin.
Kind of the nature of the beast, no?



		William LeFebvre
		Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
		Northwestern University
		<phil@eecs.nwu.edu>