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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 overla
by 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 agoAFAIK, 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.