[OS X TeX] Too many Underfull \hbox warnings?
Don Green Dragon
fergdc at shaw.ca
Fri Oct 22 02:35:01 EDT 2010
Hi Ross,
<<snip>>
>> Consistently, I get complaints about «Underfull \hbox» which I do not understand. For example
>>
>> Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 872--873
>>
>> and when I look to lines 872-873 I find:
>>
>> 872 \textbf{Length or Norm of a Vector}\\[-18pt]
>> 873 \end{defn}
>>
>
> You are not using \\ properly.
> It is for breaking a line of text which is to continue on the next line.
> But here you have no continuation, so TeX says it is Underfull.
Ok, I understand the complaint now. I should have realized that "\end{defn}" does not constitute text.
> Perhaps what you really want is
>
> \par \skip{-21pt}
> allowing 3pt of parskip.
I'll work on that! Once I get {defn} working along the lines suggested by Michael Welsh, there will some "fixing up" to be carried out. ;-)
<<snip>>
>> Still, I don’t understand the complaint about line 872. The source file typesets nicely, and I get what I want, but I wonder about all the warnings!
>
> Your coding has that you want to do something, then not done it. Hence you get a complaint about inconsistency.
Wow! Very good analysis!
> Hope this helps,
As usual, indeed it does!! :-)
Don Green Dragon
fergdc at Shaw.ca
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