Dear Wilfred -- > I haven't followed the discussion in detail, but IMHO it would be > nonsense to turn overfull boxes into errors, because they are not > errors, rather the line breaking algorithm could not find a proper way > to fix things differently.
I am happy to accept that, for some, overfull boxes are not errors; but they are warnings, and I am asking only that certain categories of warnings ( selected by the user at compile-time, and in addition to errors,) should be able to trigger a non-zero status code. > Remember, there is always the "draft" mode which will clearly show all > overfull boxes marked with black lines in the final PDF. "Draft mode" is a LaTeX concept; TeX, by default, shews the black lines, but when one is working with 300, 400, 500pp+ documents, as I usually am, searching visually for such things is not really an option. If TeXworks could be persuaded not to conceal the console log when such warnings have been generated, a great deal of user time (and, probably, the inadvertent release of faulty PDFs) could be saved. ** Phil. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
