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It's full of defects, they'll just never be fixed. Most languges would define the error messages of LaTeX as defects, and once you start including packages, man
by CJefferson 6y ago
It's full of defects, they'll just never be fixed. Most languges would define the error messages of LaTeX as defects, and once you start including packages, many don't work together.
I never realised how awful LaTeX was until I started working with a co-author who is blind, if you just "write LaTeX" you end up with equations, algorithms and tables constantly half-off the page.
- johnday 6y agoLaTeX does report this as a problem, of course - the refrain of "overfull hbox" is near universal (and ignoring the warning is just as universal). Where it fails is in reporting the problem in a meaningful way. This is, of course, very difficult to accomplish, since there is no nice mapping from line-of-TeX to visual error. What's more, any tool which could provide such an error would be so constrained as to be useless for typesetting.