2011/12/16 Philip TAYLOR <[email protected]>: > > > Zdenek Wagner wrote: > >> You should start with \tolerance=9999. >> In such a case you should not have overfull boxes (if you still have >> them, some changes in the text may be needed). After this run you find >> the highest badness of the underfull box. Set \tolerance to this value >> and \hbadness to one less and run LaTeX again. You should see just one >> underfull box in your log. Now you can decrease \tolerance (and >> badness) until you get an overfull box, then return to the higher >> value of \tolerance and set \hbadness to the same value. If you have a >> paragraph with an overfull box, then set locally for that paragraph >> \emergencystretch=1em. (This algorithm appeared years ago in an >> article by Phil Taylor and I use it since then) > > > So do I (!), but I am fairly certain that Frank Mittelbach subsequently > proved that there is a far simpler way of achieving exactly the same > results, with considerably less effort. Frank, are you there ? > It's not that much effort. I do not care about overfull boxes until the text is finished and proof read. And then I have a few macros that help me to do it quite quickly. In pdftex hz-algorithm can sometimes help but not always.
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