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> Has a command-line program that is quiet But what about my overfull hboxes???

chrismorgan 9y ago
Assume that “quiet” means “not verbose”, not “silent”. Although I haven’t got it running yet I believe errors will still be written.
- kevhito 9y ago
  I have a python program that does nothing but filter latex output to remove all the cruft. On my latest paper, raw latex spits out 147 lines of nonsense. After my filter, I see about a dozen lines, including all meaningful errors and warnings and a four-line summary like this: > Number of underfull warnings : 5 > Number of overfull warnings : 0 > Number of undefined references : 0 > Number of missing citations : 0
  - nagvx 9y ago
    Do you have a link to said program?
    - kevhito 9y ago
      It's just something I tossed together years ago and have been using ever since. Here it is if you are interested: https://pastebin.com/9H7icgKJ https://pastebin.com/9H7icgKJ
bert_ 9y ago
Thanks for the morning chuckle. Never thought I'd see an hbox joke :)
- Toenex 9y ago
  I, for one, have always preferred all of my `figs` at the end of the document anyway. ;)
  - santaclaus 9y ago
    That, my friend, is badness 10000.
- deleted 9y ago
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- anderspitman 9y ago
  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiMNh9rWEAAdM6Q.png:large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiMNh9rWEAAdM6Q.png:large
tnecniv 9y ago
I feel the overfull hboxes error is symbolic of everything that is wrong with LaTeX.
- vbezhenar 9y ago
  If I remember correctly, overful hbox error means that you must rearrange your text to produce pleasant render. If that's correct, then I'd argue that this error is everything that's right with LaTeX, because I hate with passion d o c u m e n t s w i t h h u g e s p a c e s.
  - arnsholt 9y ago
    The huge spacing is actually an underfull hbox (i.e. TeX couldn't fill it enough, so had to stretch the spaces). An overfull box is a box where the contained text overflows the box; usually it's a line where the end juts into the margin, which is even uglier than the underfulls, IMO.
    - marvy 9y ago
      I really wish TeX would prefer underfull to overfull. So many times I've read two column documents where the author ignored the warnings and the columns overlapped, making things pretty hard to read. (Well, actual overlap is rare, but uncomfortably close is common.)
      - arnsholt 9y ago
        AFAIK, it does prefer underfull boxes to overfull ones,but sometimes the penalties work out such that it has to put in an overfull anyways (IME really long words that it doesn't know how to hyphenate correctly are usually the culprit, and it's more frequent in two-column than single column layouts). You can probably set it to be even stricter though by tweaking the penalties for underfulls and overfulls. The details escape me, but it's probably pretty easy once you find the right part of the TeX book to consult.
    - srett 9y ago

Assume that “quiet” means “not verbose”, not “silent”. Although I haven’t got it running yet I believe errors will still be written.

kevhito 9y ago
I have a python program that does nothing but filter latex output to remove all the cruft. On my latest paper, raw latex spits out 147 lines of nonsense. After my filter, I see about a dozen lines, including all meaningful errors and warnings and a four-line summary like this: > Number of underfull warnings : 5 > Number of overfull warnings : 0 > Number of undefined references : 0 > Number of missing citations : 0
- nagvx 9y ago
  Do you have a link to said program?
  - kevhito 9y ago
    It's just something I tossed together years ago and have been using ever since. Here it is if you are interested: https://pastebin.com/9H7icgKJ https://pastebin.com/9H7icgKJ

bert_ 9y ago

Thanks for the morning chuckle. Never thought I'd see an hbox joke :)

Toenex 9y ago
I, for one, have always preferred all of my `figs` at the end of the document anyway. ;)
- santaclaus 9y ago
  That, my friend, is badness 10000.
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anderspitman 9y ago
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiMNh9rWEAAdM6Q.png:large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CiMNh9rWEAAdM6Q.png:large

tnecniv 9y ago

I feel the overfull hboxes error is symbolic of everything that is wrong with LaTeX.

vbezhenar 9y ago
If I remember correctly, overful hbox error means that you must rearrange your text to produce pleasant render. If that's correct, then I'd argue that this error is everything that's right with LaTeX, because I hate with passion d o c u m e n t s w i t h h u g e s p a c e s.
- arnsholt 9y ago
  The huge spacing is actually an underfull hbox (i.e. TeX couldn't fill it enough, so had to stretch the spaces). An overfull box is a box where the contained text overflows the box; usually it's a line where the end juts into the margin, which is even uglier than the underfulls, IMO.
  - marvy 9y ago
    I really wish TeX would prefer underfull to overfull. So many times I've read two column documents where the author ignored the warnings and the columns overlapped, making things pretty hard to read. (Well, actual overlap is rare, but uncomfortably close is common.)
    - arnsholt 9y ago
      AFAIK, it does prefer underfull boxes to overfull ones,but sometimes the penalties work out such that it has to put in an overfull anyways (IME really long words that it doesn't know how to hyphenate correctly are usually the culprit, and it's more frequent in two-column than single column layouts). You can probably set it to be even stricter though by tweaking the penalties for underfulls and overfulls. The details escape me, but it's probably pretty easy once you find the right part of the TeX book to consult.
  - srett 9y ago