Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
> Of course they can /know/: by inspecting the log file. It contains > the exact transcript of the TeX run, and thus reflects all of TeX's > knowledge about what happened when compiling the file; as far as > overfull \hbox'es, etc. are concerned. Augmented by anything that the program elects to write to the log file. A program can elect to write an "overfull \hbox" message to the log file even if no overfull \hbox has actually occurred. > Do you *understand* what I /mean/ ? Not only do I understand what you mean, I also understand that you fail to appreciate the difference between "know if an overfull \hbox has occurred " (which is *TeX's state) and "believe that an overfull \hbox has occurred" (which is the state of any adjunct program attempting to determine the state of *TeX's knowledge simply by inspecting the log file). Philip Taylor -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
