<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 dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457858464926_41304"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457858464926_41359">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.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457858464926_41378" dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457858464926_41359"></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457858464926_41359">Remember, there is always the "draft" mode which will clearly show all overfull boxes marked with black lines in the final PDF.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457858464926_41359"></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457858464926_41359">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 7:54 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"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Zdenek Wagner wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> This is not even mentioned on the console, the user must read the log<br clear="none">> file. Overfull boxes make the output at least readable, missing<br clear="none">> characters present a serious problem.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">No, they can both render the output meaningless, particularly when the<br clear="none">overfull box horizontally abuts another box. This is not to say that I<br clear="none">by any means disagree that missing glyphs should (be capable of)<br clear="none">generating a non-zero status code; they most certainly should, as should<br clear="none">all warnings that TeX is capable of emitting. And they could usefully<br clear="none">be (capable of) appearing in the console output as well as in the log<br clear="none">file (perhaps a second new command-line parameter, or a side-effect of<br clear="none">the first).<div class="yqt9706602412" id="yqtfd79754"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">** Phil.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">--------------------------------------------------<br clear="none">Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:<br clear="none"> <a shape="rect" href="http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex" target="_blank">http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>