How do I horizontally compress or unstretch paragraph text?












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My references section sometimes shows a lot of whitespace between words that I would like to remove.



For example, in the following screenshot, I would like to remove the extra spaces within the text "Describing a link":



enter image description here



I know that I can use mbox (for example, mbox{Describing a link}), but I'd like to apply some option to avoid this globally.



Here is the full example document:



documentclass[12pt, a4paper, twocolumn]{article}

usepackage{hyperref}
hypersetup{colorlinks = true, urlcolor = blue, linkcolor = blue, citecolor = blue}

usepackage[super,comma,sort&compress]{natbib}

usepackage{abstract}
renewcommand{abstractnamefont}{normalfontbfseries}
renewcommand{abstracttextfont}{normalfontsmallitshape}

title{Test Article}
author{Test Author}

begin{document}

twocolumn[
begin{@twocolumnfalse}
maketitle
begin{abstract}
noindent
Test abstract.
newlinenewline
end{abstract}
end{@twocolumnfalse}
]

section{Section1}

Lorem ipsum dolor sit ametcite{Reference1}, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce maximus nisi ligula. Morbi laoreet ex ligula, vitae lobortis purus mattis vel. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Donec ac metus ut turpis mollis placerat et nec enim. Duis tristique nibh maximus faucibus facilisis. Praesent in consequat leo. Maecenas condimentum ex rhoncus, elementum diam vel, malesuada ante. Fusce pulvinar, mauris pretium placerat venenatis, lectus ex tempus lacus, id suscipit libero lorem eu augue. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus.

section{Section2}

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce maximus nisi ligula. Morbi laoreet ex ligula, vitae lobortis purus mattis vel. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Donec ac metus ut turpis mollis placerat et nec enim. Duis tristique nibh maximus faucibus facilisis. Praesent in consequat leo. Maecenas condimentum ex rhoncus, elementum diam vel, malesuada ante. Fusce pulvinar, mauris pretium placerat venenatis, lectus ex tempus lacus, id suscipit libero lorem eu augue. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus.

begin{thebibliography}{99}
bibitem{Reference1} Describing a link, url{https://example.com/this_is_a_really_long_link_that_wraps_many_lines}
end{thebibliography}

end{document}









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    My references section sometimes shows a lot of whitespace between words that I would like to remove.



    For example, in the following screenshot, I would like to remove the extra spaces within the text "Describing a link":



    enter image description here



    I know that I can use mbox (for example, mbox{Describing a link}), but I'd like to apply some option to avoid this globally.



    Here is the full example document:



    documentclass[12pt, a4paper, twocolumn]{article}

    usepackage{hyperref}
    hypersetup{colorlinks = true, urlcolor = blue, linkcolor = blue, citecolor = blue}

    usepackage[super,comma,sort&compress]{natbib}

    usepackage{abstract}
    renewcommand{abstractnamefont}{normalfontbfseries}
    renewcommand{abstracttextfont}{normalfontsmallitshape}

    title{Test Article}
    author{Test Author}

    begin{document}

    twocolumn[
    begin{@twocolumnfalse}
    maketitle
    begin{abstract}
    noindent
    Test abstract.
    newlinenewline
    end{abstract}
    end{@twocolumnfalse}
    ]

    section{Section1}

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit ametcite{Reference1}, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce maximus nisi ligula. Morbi laoreet ex ligula, vitae lobortis purus mattis vel. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Donec ac metus ut turpis mollis placerat et nec enim. Duis tristique nibh maximus faucibus facilisis. Praesent in consequat leo. Maecenas condimentum ex rhoncus, elementum diam vel, malesuada ante. Fusce pulvinar, mauris pretium placerat venenatis, lectus ex tempus lacus, id suscipit libero lorem eu augue. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus.

    section{Section2}

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce maximus nisi ligula. Morbi laoreet ex ligula, vitae lobortis purus mattis vel. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Donec ac metus ut turpis mollis placerat et nec enim. Duis tristique nibh maximus faucibus facilisis. Praesent in consequat leo. Maecenas condimentum ex rhoncus, elementum diam vel, malesuada ante. Fusce pulvinar, mauris pretium placerat venenatis, lectus ex tempus lacus, id suscipit libero lorem eu augue. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus.

    begin{thebibliography}{99}
    bibitem{Reference1} Describing a link, url{https://example.com/this_is_a_really_long_link_that_wraps_many_lines}
    end{thebibliography}

    end{document}









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      My references section sometimes shows a lot of whitespace between words that I would like to remove.



      For example, in the following screenshot, I would like to remove the extra spaces within the text "Describing a link":



      enter image description here



      I know that I can use mbox (for example, mbox{Describing a link}), but I'd like to apply some option to avoid this globally.



      Here is the full example document:



      documentclass[12pt, a4paper, twocolumn]{article}

      usepackage{hyperref}
      hypersetup{colorlinks = true, urlcolor = blue, linkcolor = blue, citecolor = blue}

      usepackage[super,comma,sort&compress]{natbib}

      usepackage{abstract}
      renewcommand{abstractnamefont}{normalfontbfseries}
      renewcommand{abstracttextfont}{normalfontsmallitshape}

      title{Test Article}
      author{Test Author}

      begin{document}

      twocolumn[
      begin{@twocolumnfalse}
      maketitle
      begin{abstract}
      noindent
      Test abstract.
      newlinenewline
      end{abstract}
      end{@twocolumnfalse}
      ]

      section{Section1}

      Lorem ipsum dolor sit ametcite{Reference1}, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce maximus nisi ligula. Morbi laoreet ex ligula, vitae lobortis purus mattis vel. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Donec ac metus ut turpis mollis placerat et nec enim. Duis tristique nibh maximus faucibus facilisis. Praesent in consequat leo. Maecenas condimentum ex rhoncus, elementum diam vel, malesuada ante. Fusce pulvinar, mauris pretium placerat venenatis, lectus ex tempus lacus, id suscipit libero lorem eu augue. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus.

      section{Section2}

      Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce maximus nisi ligula. Morbi laoreet ex ligula, vitae lobortis purus mattis vel. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Donec ac metus ut turpis mollis placerat et nec enim. Duis tristique nibh maximus faucibus facilisis. Praesent in consequat leo. Maecenas condimentum ex rhoncus, elementum diam vel, malesuada ante. Fusce pulvinar, mauris pretium placerat venenatis, lectus ex tempus lacus, id suscipit libero lorem eu augue. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus.

      begin{thebibliography}{99}
      bibitem{Reference1} Describing a link, url{https://example.com/this_is_a_really_long_link_that_wraps_many_lines}
      end{thebibliography}

      end{document}









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      My references section sometimes shows a lot of whitespace between words that I would like to remove.



      For example, in the following screenshot, I would like to remove the extra spaces within the text "Describing a link":



      enter image description here



      I know that I can use mbox (for example, mbox{Describing a link}), but I'd like to apply some option to avoid this globally.



      Here is the full example document:



      documentclass[12pt, a4paper, twocolumn]{article}

      usepackage{hyperref}
      hypersetup{colorlinks = true, urlcolor = blue, linkcolor = blue, citecolor = blue}

      usepackage[super,comma,sort&compress]{natbib}

      usepackage{abstract}
      renewcommand{abstractnamefont}{normalfontbfseries}
      renewcommand{abstracttextfont}{normalfontsmallitshape}

      title{Test Article}
      author{Test Author}

      begin{document}

      twocolumn[
      begin{@twocolumnfalse}
      maketitle
      begin{abstract}
      noindent
      Test abstract.
      newlinenewline
      end{abstract}
      end{@twocolumnfalse}
      ]

      section{Section1}

      Lorem ipsum dolor sit ametcite{Reference1}, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce maximus nisi ligula. Morbi laoreet ex ligula, vitae lobortis purus mattis vel. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Donec ac metus ut turpis mollis placerat et nec enim. Duis tristique nibh maximus faucibus facilisis. Praesent in consequat leo. Maecenas condimentum ex rhoncus, elementum diam vel, malesuada ante. Fusce pulvinar, mauris pretium placerat venenatis, lectus ex tempus lacus, id suscipit libero lorem eu augue. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus.

      section{Section2}

      Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce maximus nisi ligula. Morbi laoreet ex ligula, vitae lobortis purus mattis vel. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Donec ac metus ut turpis mollis placerat et nec enim. Duis tristique nibh maximus faucibus facilisis. Praesent in consequat leo. Maecenas condimentum ex rhoncus, elementum diam vel, malesuada ante. Fusce pulvinar, mauris pretium placerat venenatis, lectus ex tempus lacus, id suscipit libero lorem eu augue. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus.

      begin{thebibliography}{99}
      bibitem{Reference1} Describing a link, url{https://example.com/this_is_a_really_long_link_that_wraps_many_lines}
      end{thebibliography}

      end{document}






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          In your case you can simply add usepackage{xurl} in your preamble. Be sure to call xurl before package hyperref (if you omit that, hyperref itself calls package url with the result you got ...)!



          With the following code



          documentclass[12pt, a4paper, twocolumn]{article}

          usepackage{xurl} % <===================================================
          usepackage{hyperref}
          hypersetup{colorlinks = true, urlcolor = blue, linkcolor = blue, citecolor = blue}

          usepackage[super,comma,sort&compress]{natbib}

          usepackage{abstract}
          renewcommand{abstractnamefont}{normalfontbfseries}
          renewcommand{abstracttextfont}{normalfontsmallitshape}

          title{Test Article}
          author{Test Author}

          begin{document}

          twocolumn[
          begin{@twocolumnfalse}
          maketitle
          begin{abstract}
          noindent
          Test abstract.
          newlinenewline
          end{abstract}
          end{@twocolumnfalse}
          ]

          section{Section1}

          Lorem ipsum dolor sit ametcite{Reference1}, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce maximus nisi ligula. Morbi laoreet ex ligula, vitae lobortis purus mattis vel. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Donec ac metus ut turpis mollis placerat et nec enim. Duis tristique nibh maximus faucibus facilisis. Praesent in consequat leo. Maecenas condimentum ex rhoncus, elementum diam vel, malesuada ante. Fusce pulvinar, mauris pretium placerat venenatis, lectus ex tempus lacus, id suscipit libero lorem eu augue. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus.

          section{Section2}

          Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce maximus nisi ligula. Morbi laoreet ex ligula, vitae lobortis purus mattis vel. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Donec ac metus ut turpis mollis placerat et nec enim. Duis tristique nibh maximus faucibus facilisis. Praesent in consequat leo. Maecenas condimentum ex rhoncus, elementum diam vel, malesuada ante. Fusce pulvinar, mauris pretium placerat venenatis, lectus ex tempus lacus, id suscipit libero lorem eu augue. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus.

          begin{thebibliography}{99}
          bibitem{Reference1} Describing a link, url{https://example.com/this_is_a_really_long_link_that_wraps_many_lines}
          end{thebibliography}

          end{document}


          you get the result:



          enter image description here






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          • Thanks! That worked.
            – freeradical
            43 mins ago










          • @Mico Thanks, I added it ...
            – Kurt
            35 mins ago










          • @freeradical You are welcome!
            – Kurt
            35 mins ago











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          In your case you can simply add usepackage{xurl} in your preamble. Be sure to call xurl before package hyperref (if you omit that, hyperref itself calls package url with the result you got ...)!



          With the following code



          documentclass[12pt, a4paper, twocolumn]{article}

          usepackage{xurl} % <===================================================
          usepackage{hyperref}
          hypersetup{colorlinks = true, urlcolor = blue, linkcolor = blue, citecolor = blue}

          usepackage[super,comma,sort&compress]{natbib}

          usepackage{abstract}
          renewcommand{abstractnamefont}{normalfontbfseries}
          renewcommand{abstracttextfont}{normalfontsmallitshape}

          title{Test Article}
          author{Test Author}

          begin{document}

          twocolumn[
          begin{@twocolumnfalse}
          maketitle
          begin{abstract}
          noindent
          Test abstract.
          newlinenewline
          end{abstract}
          end{@twocolumnfalse}
          ]

          section{Section1}

          Lorem ipsum dolor sit ametcite{Reference1}, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce maximus nisi ligula. Morbi laoreet ex ligula, vitae lobortis purus mattis vel. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Donec ac metus ut turpis mollis placerat et nec enim. Duis tristique nibh maximus faucibus facilisis. Praesent in consequat leo. Maecenas condimentum ex rhoncus, elementum diam vel, malesuada ante. Fusce pulvinar, mauris pretium placerat venenatis, lectus ex tempus lacus, id suscipit libero lorem eu augue. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus.

          section{Section2}

          Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce maximus nisi ligula. Morbi laoreet ex ligula, vitae lobortis purus mattis vel. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Donec ac metus ut turpis mollis placerat et nec enim. Duis tristique nibh maximus faucibus facilisis. Praesent in consequat leo. Maecenas condimentum ex rhoncus, elementum diam vel, malesuada ante. Fusce pulvinar, mauris pretium placerat venenatis, lectus ex tempus lacus, id suscipit libero lorem eu augue. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus.

          begin{thebibliography}{99}
          bibitem{Reference1} Describing a link, url{https://example.com/this_is_a_really_long_link_that_wraps_many_lines}
          end{thebibliography}

          end{document}


          you get the result:



          enter image description here






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          • Thanks! That worked.
            – freeradical
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          • @Mico Thanks, I added it ...
            – Kurt
            35 mins ago










          • @freeradical You are welcome!
            – Kurt
            35 mins ago
















          6














          In your case you can simply add usepackage{xurl} in your preamble. Be sure to call xurl before package hyperref (if you omit that, hyperref itself calls package url with the result you got ...)!



          With the following code



          documentclass[12pt, a4paper, twocolumn]{article}

          usepackage{xurl} % <===================================================
          usepackage{hyperref}
          hypersetup{colorlinks = true, urlcolor = blue, linkcolor = blue, citecolor = blue}

          usepackage[super,comma,sort&compress]{natbib}

          usepackage{abstract}
          renewcommand{abstractnamefont}{normalfontbfseries}
          renewcommand{abstracttextfont}{normalfontsmallitshape}

          title{Test Article}
          author{Test Author}

          begin{document}

          twocolumn[
          begin{@twocolumnfalse}
          maketitle
          begin{abstract}
          noindent
          Test abstract.
          newlinenewline
          end{abstract}
          end{@twocolumnfalse}
          ]

          section{Section1}

          Lorem ipsum dolor sit ametcite{Reference1}, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce maximus nisi ligula. Morbi laoreet ex ligula, vitae lobortis purus mattis vel. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Donec ac metus ut turpis mollis placerat et nec enim. Duis tristique nibh maximus faucibus facilisis. Praesent in consequat leo. Maecenas condimentum ex rhoncus, elementum diam vel, malesuada ante. Fusce pulvinar, mauris pretium placerat venenatis, lectus ex tempus lacus, id suscipit libero lorem eu augue. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus.

          section{Section2}

          Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce maximus nisi ligula. Morbi laoreet ex ligula, vitae lobortis purus mattis vel. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Donec ac metus ut turpis mollis placerat et nec enim. Duis tristique nibh maximus faucibus facilisis. Praesent in consequat leo. Maecenas condimentum ex rhoncus, elementum diam vel, malesuada ante. Fusce pulvinar, mauris pretium placerat venenatis, lectus ex tempus lacus, id suscipit libero lorem eu augue. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus.

          begin{thebibliography}{99}
          bibitem{Reference1} Describing a link, url{https://example.com/this_is_a_really_long_link_that_wraps_many_lines}
          end{thebibliography}

          end{document}


          you get the result:



          enter image description here






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          • Thanks! That worked.
            – freeradical
            43 mins ago










          • @Mico Thanks, I added it ...
            – Kurt
            35 mins ago










          • @freeradical You are welcome!
            – Kurt
            35 mins ago














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          In your case you can simply add usepackage{xurl} in your preamble. Be sure to call xurl before package hyperref (if you omit that, hyperref itself calls package url with the result you got ...)!



          With the following code



          documentclass[12pt, a4paper, twocolumn]{article}

          usepackage{xurl} % <===================================================
          usepackage{hyperref}
          hypersetup{colorlinks = true, urlcolor = blue, linkcolor = blue, citecolor = blue}

          usepackage[super,comma,sort&compress]{natbib}

          usepackage{abstract}
          renewcommand{abstractnamefont}{normalfontbfseries}
          renewcommand{abstracttextfont}{normalfontsmallitshape}

          title{Test Article}
          author{Test Author}

          begin{document}

          twocolumn[
          begin{@twocolumnfalse}
          maketitle
          begin{abstract}
          noindent
          Test abstract.
          newlinenewline
          end{abstract}
          end{@twocolumnfalse}
          ]

          section{Section1}

          Lorem ipsum dolor sit ametcite{Reference1}, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce maximus nisi ligula. Morbi laoreet ex ligula, vitae lobortis purus mattis vel. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Donec ac metus ut turpis mollis placerat et nec enim. Duis tristique nibh maximus faucibus facilisis. Praesent in consequat leo. Maecenas condimentum ex rhoncus, elementum diam vel, malesuada ante. Fusce pulvinar, mauris pretium placerat venenatis, lectus ex tempus lacus, id suscipit libero lorem eu augue. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus.

          section{Section2}

          Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce maximus nisi ligula. Morbi laoreet ex ligula, vitae lobortis purus mattis vel. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Donec ac metus ut turpis mollis placerat et nec enim. Duis tristique nibh maximus faucibus facilisis. Praesent in consequat leo. Maecenas condimentum ex rhoncus, elementum diam vel, malesuada ante. Fusce pulvinar, mauris pretium placerat venenatis, lectus ex tempus lacus, id suscipit libero lorem eu augue. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus.

          begin{thebibliography}{99}
          bibitem{Reference1} Describing a link, url{https://example.com/this_is_a_really_long_link_that_wraps_many_lines}
          end{thebibliography}

          end{document}


          you get the result:



          enter image description here






          share|improve this answer














          In your case you can simply add usepackage{xurl} in your preamble. Be sure to call xurl before package hyperref (if you omit that, hyperref itself calls package url with the result you got ...)!



          With the following code



          documentclass[12pt, a4paper, twocolumn]{article}

          usepackage{xurl} % <===================================================
          usepackage{hyperref}
          hypersetup{colorlinks = true, urlcolor = blue, linkcolor = blue, citecolor = blue}

          usepackage[super,comma,sort&compress]{natbib}

          usepackage{abstract}
          renewcommand{abstractnamefont}{normalfontbfseries}
          renewcommand{abstracttextfont}{normalfontsmallitshape}

          title{Test Article}
          author{Test Author}

          begin{document}

          twocolumn[
          begin{@twocolumnfalse}
          maketitle
          begin{abstract}
          noindent
          Test abstract.
          newlinenewline
          end{abstract}
          end{@twocolumnfalse}
          ]

          section{Section1}

          Lorem ipsum dolor sit ametcite{Reference1}, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce maximus nisi ligula. Morbi laoreet ex ligula, vitae lobortis purus mattis vel. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Donec ac metus ut turpis mollis placerat et nec enim. Duis tristique nibh maximus faucibus facilisis. Praesent in consequat leo. Maecenas condimentum ex rhoncus, elementum diam vel, malesuada ante. Fusce pulvinar, mauris pretium placerat venenatis, lectus ex tempus lacus, id suscipit libero lorem eu augue. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus.

          section{Section2}

          Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce maximus nisi ligula. Morbi laoreet ex ligula, vitae lobortis purus mattis vel. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Donec ac metus ut turpis mollis placerat et nec enim. Duis tristique nibh maximus faucibus facilisis. Praesent in consequat leo. Maecenas condimentum ex rhoncus, elementum diam vel, malesuada ante. Fusce pulvinar, mauris pretium placerat venenatis, lectus ex tempus lacus, id suscipit libero lorem eu augue. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus.

          begin{thebibliography}{99}
          bibitem{Reference1} Describing a link, url{https://example.com/this_is_a_really_long_link_that_wraps_many_lines}
          end{thebibliography}

          end{document}


          you get the result:



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