Underfull problem

Asked Dec 13 '21 at 20:28

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I am creating a memoir document that contains quotations from other authors and keep getting a warning about Underfull box .... The output looks good to me but I would like to eliminate the warnings. I have tried using \sloppy but that had no effect.

Is there any generic way to eliminate these warnings?

I tried to provide an MWE but SE doesn't like me and I had to give up on pasting code into SE.

edited Dec 14 '21 at 18:14

Phelype Oleinik

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asked Dec 13 '21 at 20:28

Peter Wilson

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well you can put \hbadness=10000 to silence all warnings but better would be to arrange it wasn't under full – David Carlisle Dec 13 '21 at 21:10
add \showoutput then you get a lot more box trace and you should see which box is underfull – David Carlisle Dec 13 '21 at 21:11
is it badness 10000 or less than that? – David Carlisle Dec 13 '21 at 21:20
@DavidCarlisle Apologies for the late response but I had to get a new PC. The badness is less than or equal to 10000. I started to work along the lines \hbadness=9000 to reduce the number of warnings, then fix the remaining bad text, and then onwards to a \hbadness=8000 and so forth. – Peter Wilson Dec 22 '21 at 18:49
ok I just asked as 10000 usually denotes a syntax error but any value less than that is just a paragraph with tricky text and has no generic answer. I don't think this question can really be aswered in its current form. – David Carlisle Dec 22 '21 at 18:53

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