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I am using biblatex and biber to create the bibliography of my thesis. I am also using kpfonts.

I noticed that in almost every entry of my bibliography there is one line in which a symbol or letter extends over the right border. Take a look:

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This problem only occurs in the bibliography section of the document, all normal text paragraphs have proper edges. The problem also does not occur when I am not using kpfonts.

Therefore I am concluding that the problem lays in the interplay of biblatex with kpfonts. Probably biblatex is using a different font internally to determine the spacing?

Here are the relevant code lines:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book}
\usepackage[nomath]{kpfonts}
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=numeric,citestyle=numeric-comp,bibencoding=utf8,url=false]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{../literature/combined.bib}
...
\begin{document}
...
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}
\setcounter{biburllcpenalty}{7000}
\setcounter{biburlucpenalty}{8000}
\printbibliography

Who has an idea how to solve this?

terri
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    my first try would be \usepackage{microtype}. – Ulrike Fischer May 18 '20 at 09:04
  • I had not heard of microtype before, but it did the trick. All problems are solved.

    How do I mark this question as solved when there is only a comment?

     – terri May 18 '20 at 09:09
  • For more help on line breaks in the bibliography see https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/442308/35864. – moewe May 18 '20 at 15:39
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    Not relevant to the question, but style=numeric,citestyle=numeric-comp, is equivalent to the shorter style=numeric-comp,. Usually bibencoding=utf8, is not needed, since the encoding can be inferred from the document (and you probably want to use UTF-8 for both the .tex and .bib file). You can (and should) remove \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography} in favour of adding heading=bibintoc to the \printbibliography call: \printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]. Usually I would put the \setcounter lines in the preamble. – moewe May 18 '20 at 15:42

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Try \usepackage{microtype}, it allows fonts to stretch a bit and so can often help in such cases.

Ulrike Fischer
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