[texhax] could someone give me an explanation as to why fontsize fails with an overfull box

[Peter Flynn]

On 14/01/2019 16:59, Philip Taylor wrote:> Peter Flynn wrote:
>> I think in the sense you mean, yes. In fact a \vbox can be used for
>> storage, and applied later, so it doesn't have to be used on the
>> *current* page; but its contents do have to *fit* on a single page or less.
> 
> Not necessarily so.  A \vbox can by \unvboxed.

Yes, I was trying to avoid that level of compleXity :-)

///Peter