Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 278--2

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The "Underfull \hbox (badness 10000)" error in LaTeX indicates that the text cannot be justified properly within the specified horizontal space. This issue often arises when the content is too short to fill the line adequately. A common solution is to use the \begin{sloppypar} command, which allows for more flexible line breaking at the expense of visual quality. Users are encouraged to provide more context in their queries to receive better assistance.

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Hi, this error appears ubiquitously in my document, what does it mean and how can I rectify it?

Thanks!
 
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LaTeX is having problems fitting something such that it spans the entire horizontal space it should span (like trying to justify text at both margins). Without details as to what it is trying to do and what the resulting output is, it is hard to give advice. Sometimes, declaring a paragraph as a "sloppypar" can help, at the cost of not being so nice visually.
 
Do you mean \begin{sloppypar} asdasdasdasdasd \end{sloppypar} ?
 
By the way, you have been posting many threads asking about simple LaTeX errors, while giving very little context as to what you are trying to do.

Try to save the problem yourself first. For instance, you can check https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Errors_and_Warnings
 
SeM said:
Do you mean \begin{sloppypar} asdasdasdasdasd \end{sloppypar} ?
Yes.
 
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Thanks, this was the last error actually!

All the best
 

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