[OS X TeX] Pesky TeXShop warnings

Don Green Dragon fergdc at Shaw.ca
Mon Feb 7 16:49:27 EST 2011


Hello  Manfred,

<<snip>>

>> ----------
>> Overfull \hbox (30.0pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 17--19
>> [] |
>> ----------
>> 
>> Huh!? The actual source code is:
>> 
>> 16  \chapter[Theorems and Proofs]{\centering Theorems and Proofs}
>> 17  \rule{\textwidth}{4pt}
>> 18  \rule{\textwidth}{2pt}
>> 19  \par
> 
> I don't get any complaints from the simple source
> 
> \documentclass{book}
> \begin{document}
> \chapter[Theorems and Proofs]{\centering Theorems and Proofs}
> \rule{\textwidth}{4pt}
> \rule{\textwidth}{2pt}
> \par
> \noindent
> Here starts Chapter 1 \ldots
> \end{document}

Interesting!

> 
> The overfull boxes could be an unwanted side effect of some package that you have included.

I suspected the above with respect to application of the `geometry' package, but after commenting out all the 'geometry' lines, the warning persists, so I must look elsewhere. Thanks for the suggestion.


Don Green Dragon
fergdc at Shaw.ca





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