Unexpected overfull hbox in minipage environment

[Joe Hesse]

Hi,

I am writing a book. The following minipage construct is giving me
overfull hboxes. The amount is usually 27.37506pt.

I located them by running latex in draft mode.

\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\centering
\fbox{\includegraphics[scale=0.4]{MyFigure.eps}}
\figcaption{My Caption}
\label{chap03:install01}
\end{minipage}

Visually everything looks great, the left and right borders of the
image are not too close to the page margin. It seems to me that if
the dimension in the minipage environment is \textwidth it should fit
perfectly. I can't figure out why I am getting this message.

Thank you,
Joe Hesse

[Heiko Oberdiek]

"Joe Hesse" <joe_...@actcx.com> wrote:

> \begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
> \centering
> \fbox{\includegraphics[scale=0.4]{MyFigure.eps}}
> \figcaption{My Caption}
> \label{chap03:install01}
> \end{minipage}
>
> Visually everything looks great, the left and right borders of the
> image are not too close to the page margin. It seems to me that if
> the dimension in the minipage environment is \textwidth it should fit
> perfectly. I can't figure out why I am getting this message.

* \linewidth is usually better, it takes environments such as quote,
itemize, ... into account.
* Probably the whole minipage environment is indented by \parindent?

\noindent
\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
...
\end{minipage}

Yours sincerely
Heiko <ober...@uni-freiburg.de>