On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 11:37 (+0100), Al Haji-Ali wrote:
> On 26/07/2026, Jim Jim wrote:
>> Speaking as a plain TeX and ConTeXt user (yeah, I'm such a radical :-)
>> I don't like "bb"... to me, that only meant "bounding box". Would "ob" for
>> "overfull box" be meaningful to LaTeX users? (I assume that is what you
>> mean by "black boxes".)
> Sorry, I meant bad boxes. These included overfull and underfull boxes
> AFAIK. I agree that bb is more associated with bounding boxes thought.
Al,
thanks for clarifying that. Not being a LaTeX user, I assumed "black box"
might mean the black rule that TeX puts in the margin for overfull hboxes.
(Or used to put, I haven't seen it in a while, probably because of
something I put in my config a long time ago.)
bb is appealing for "bad box", and in 3.75 seconds of intense thought, I
can't think of something better that is really short. So I withdraw my
"complaint".
Cheers.
Jim
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