LaTeX would normally break up a real word according to some internal dictionary it has. Since you gave it a non-word that's got more characters than the line can accommodate, it doesn't know how to fit that huge word on a line or where to break it up. If you try putting some spaces between those "a"s, things should look more normal.
When you work with actual text, you can set different margins from what the class default specifies in the "Page margins" area that you can see in your screenshot. Hope that helps :) Maria On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM Carl Evans <c.evan...@outlook.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I apologise if this is incredibly basic, but I've only had Lyx one day. I > simply do not understand the margins that I thought were set automatically. > I'm using the book (standard class): > > > > > > If I put a few line of text as follows in the editor it produces this: > > > > > > But then when viewing the resulting pdf, I get this: > > > > I thought the margins would be automatic and a new line would start once > it had reached the end. > > Any help, greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Carl > -- > lyx-users mailing list > lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > https://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users >
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