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From: dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: overfilled pages with latex
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.164405.1@euler.claremont.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 91 00:44:05 GMT
References: <5658@gara.une.oz.au>
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In article <5658@gara.une.oz.au>, ascott@gara.une.oz.au (ascott) writes:
> In my Chemistry phd thesis and in the experimental part I am getting pages
>  of text
> that are overful. This is not by a small amount but by 1000's of
> points!!.

> Doe any one have any idea what is going on here?

There isn't enough information in your message to identify the problem.

 
> I am using \begin{sloppypar} .... \end{sloppypar} over the whole of
> the experimental chapter to get even decent line
> breaks and am using \newline to get new lines for clarity of spectral
> information. toc information is written by
> \addcontentsline{section}{Alcohols} to replace the individual headings
> which  are
> starred (*)  ie \section*{Alcohols}  to prevent numbering in the text.

Don't do things this way. If you don't want sections numbered
include the command 
  \setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}
in the preamble of your document; this will cause LaTeX to only
number chapters and parts. TOC entries will be handled as
desired.
 
> Processing the whole document gets the pages only in the experimental
> part overfull. However \includeonly the experimental part  and the
> experimental pages print perfectly.

Sounds like it's possible that returning your \section*'s to
\sections as I indicated above _might_ fix the problem, but I
wouldn't bet any money on it just now.

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