[XeTeX] Overfull \hbox when using inline math scripts

[Zdenek Wagner]

2011/12/16 Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:
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> Zdenek Wagner wrote:
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>> 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)
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> 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 ?
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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.

> ** Phil.
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