split bibliography pages to avoid overfull box

Question

I'm trying to print my bibliography, but "pages XXX-XXX" is making overfull boxes. I have already reviewed this answer but seqsplit as mentioned on ISBNs and other long numbers is not working, even worse, it throws the next error:

!Package etoolbox Error: Toggle 'bbx:pageranges' undefined.

This is my file

\RequirePackage{fix-cm}
\documentclass[12pt, table, letterpaper]{report}
\usepackage[english,spanish,es-tabla]{babel}
\usepackage[
    letterpaper,
    top = 18mm,
    left = 20mm,
    right= 20mm,
    bottom = 18mm
]{geometry}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage[
    thresholdtype=words
]{csquotes}
\usepackage[
    backend=biber,
    style=ieee,
    url=false,
    hyperref=true,
]{biblatex}
\usepackage{xurl}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setlength{\parskip}{1em}
\defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX}
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}
\addbibresource{Bib/References.bib}
\DeclareFieldFormat{url}{%
%  \mkbibacro{URL}\addcolon\space
    \href{#1}{\nolinkurl{\thefield{urlraw}}}}
\begin{document}
    \pagenumbering{gobble}
    \nocite{*}
    \printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]
\end{document}

References.bib

@article{palomino-resendiz_design_2018,
    title = {Design and implementation of a robotic active solar distiller based on a Fresnel concentrator and a photovoltaic system},
    volume = {166},
    issn = {0196-8904},
    url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196890418304175},
    doi = {10.1016/j.enconman.2018.04.069},
    abstract = {},
    pages = {637--647},
    journaltitle = {Energy Conversion and Management},
    shortjournal = {Energy Conversion and Management},
    author = {Palomino-Resendiz, S. I. and Flores-Hernández, D. A. and Lozada-Castillo, N. and Guzmán-Vargas, L. and Luviano-Juárez, A.},
    urldate = {2022-03-18},
    date = {2018-06-15},
    langid = {english},
    keywords = {Desalination, Fresnel lens, Photovoltaic system, Robotic solar distiller, Solar energy},
}
@article{kabeel_performance_2022,
    title = {Performance assessment of the hemispherical solar distillers with the extended cylindrical iron fins: An experimental investigation},
    volume = {61},
    issn = {1110-0168},
    url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110016822002794},
    doi = {10.1016/j.aej.2022.04.018},
    shorttitle = {Performance assessment of the hemispherical solar distillers with the extended cylindrical iron fins},
    pages = {11149--11157},
    number = {12},
    journaltitle = {Alexandria Engineering Journal},
    shortjournal = {Alexandria Engineering Journal},
    author = {Kabeel, Abd Elnaby and El Hadi Attia, Mohammed and Abdelgaied, Mohamed and Abdullah, A. S. and Bellila, Abdelkader and Abdel-Aziz, Moataz M.},
    urldate = {2022-05-29},
    date = {2022-12-01},
    langid = {english},
    keywords = {Extended cylindrical fins, Hemispherical solar still, Iron fins, Number, Solar energy}
}

I'm compiling my LaTeX code like this

xelatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode --output-directory=./build --shell-escape %.tex
makeindex -t ./build/%.glg -s ./build/%.ist -o ./build/%.gls ./build/%.glo
makeindex -t ./build/%.alg -s ./build/%.ist -o ./build/%.acr ./build/%.acn
biber --output-directory=./build %
xelatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode --output-directory=./build --shell-escape %.tex

Edit

It seems that the problem occurs when adding csquotes package. I deleted my file line by line and the problem disappears removing csquotes package. But the problem is that I require that package too. Any idea?

Answer 1

Line breaking is highly context sensitive, so any solution that might work in a particular situation might not be suitable for another situation, however similar they might be.

Based on the code shown in the question I can reproduce the following overfull box if I add \usepackage{csquotes}.

In this case of fairly short page numbers I don't think breaking the number itself up randomly is going to give the best results. In a first step I would try to allow line breaking at the hyphen by redefining \bibrangedash. By default spanish.lbx uses a hyphen at which there cannot be a line break.

This gives us

\RequirePackage{fix-cm}
\documentclass[12pt, letterpaper]{report}
\usepackage[
  letterpaper,
  top = 18mm,
  left = 20mm,
  right= 20mm,
  bottom = 18mm,
]{geometry}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[english,spanish,es-tabla]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[
  backend=biber,
  style=ieee,
  url=false,
]{biblatex}
\usepackage{xurl}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setlength{\parskip}{1em}
\defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX}
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}
\DefineBibliographyExtras{spanish}{%
  \protected\def\bibrangedash{-}%
}
\DeclareFieldFormat{url}{%
%  \mkbibacro{URL}\addcolon\space
    \href{#1}{\nolinkurl{\thefield{urlraw}}}}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article{palomino-resendiz_design_2018,
  title        = {Design and implementation of a robotic active solar distiller
                  based on a Fresnel concentrator and a photovoltaic system},
  volume       = {166},
  issn         = {0196-8904},
  url          = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196890418304175},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.enconman.2018.04.069},
  pages        = {637--647},
  journaltitle = {Energy Conversion and Management},
  author       = {Palomino-Resendiz, S. I. and Flores-Hernández, D. A.
                  and Lozada-Castillo, N. and Guzmán-Vargas, L.
                  and Luviano-Juárez, A.},
  urldate      = {2022-03-18},
  date         = {2018-06-15},
  langid       = {english},
}
@article{kabeel_performance_2022,
  title        = {Performance assessment of the hemispherical solar distillers
                  with the extended cylindrical iron fins:
                  An experimental investigation},
  volume       = {61},
  issn         = {1110-0168},
  url          = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110016822002794},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.aej.2022.04.018},
  pages        = {11149--11157},
  number       = {12},
  journaltitle = {Alexandria Engineering Journal},
  author       = {Kabeel, Abd Elnaby and El Hadi Attia, Mohammed
                  and Abdelgaied, Mohamed and Abdullah, A. S. and Bellila, Abdelkader
                  and Abdel-Aziz, Moataz M.},
  urldate      = {2022-05-29},
  date         = {2022-12-01},
  langid       = {english},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\begin{document}
  \pagenumbering{gobble}
  \nocite{*}
  \printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]
\end{document}

From the looks of it I'm hoping this will also work in the document shown in your screenshot (which is not the MWE).

Personally, I think the seqsplit solution is a bit radical (breaking numbers at arbitrary positions can look odd). If the problem persists, I'd probably try one of the generic solutions from How to adjust the line breaking in the bibliography?, e.g. \emergencystretch.