<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457858464926_50345"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457858464926_50375">So this is a TeXworks question. I googled around, in 2010 there was a similar discussion on the TeXworks list, and at that time it seems that it was decided to keep "overfull boxes" as warnings rather than errors.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457858464926_50448"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457858464926_50375"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457858464926_50487"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457858464926_50375">Anyway, isn't there some kind of setting in TeXworks for this? Or is there perhaps a command line option for latex "turn warnings into errors", like with gcc?</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457858464926_50488"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457858464926_50375"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457858464926_50489"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457858464926_50375">Wilfred</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Sunday, March 13, 2016 10:52 PM, Philip Taylor <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk> wrote:<br></font></div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">Dear Wilfred --<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> I haven't followed the discussion in detail, but IMHO it would be<br clear="none">> nonsense to turn overfull boxes into errors, because they are not<br clear="none">> errors, rather the line breaking algorithm could not find a proper way<br clear="none">> to fix things differently.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I am happy to accept that, for some, overfull boxes are not errors; but<br clear="none">they are warnings, and I am asking only that certain categories of<br clear="none">warnings ( selected by the user at compile-time, and in addition to<br clear="none">errors,) should be able to trigger a non-zero status code.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Remember, there is always the "draft" mode which will clearly show all<br clear="none">> overfull boxes marked with black lines in the final PDF.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">"Draft mode" is a LaTeX concept; TeX, by default, shews the black lines,<br clear="none">but when one is working with 300, 400, 500pp+ documents, as I usually<br clear="none">am, searching visually for such things is not really an option. If<br clear="none">TeXworks could be persuaded not to conceal the console log when such<br clear="none">warnings have been generated, a great deal of user time (and, probably,<br clear="none">the inadvertent release of faulty PDFs) could be saved.<div class="yqt7288869457" id="yqtfd38356"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">** Phil.<br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>