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Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Overfull \hbox in alignment
Hi there. I investigated a problem which has annoyed me for months (years?), but never had the time to sort out. I've found something that might help fix it. Using OpenJade, Norman's stylesheets and JadeTeX, I get many messages like this when processing a .tex file with pdfjadetex: Overfull \hbox (2.797pt too wide) in alignment at lines 14917--16487 Taking a closer look at the file, the warnings are caused by tables. I noticed a pattern when comparing the messages to the tables for which they occurred: Overfull \hbox (2.797pt too wide) in alignment at lines 14917--16487 [a six-column table] Overfull \hbox (1.199pt too wide) in alignment at lines 23172--23174 [a two-column table] Overfull \hbox (1.59999pt too wide) in alignment at lines 57749--57751 [a three-column table] Apparently, given an N-column table, pdfjadetex will complain saying the hbox is 0.4*(N+1) points too wide. I immediately suspected it had something to do with column separators. After altering one of the tables so that frame="none" and colsep="0", the message was gone. I would like to have the separators back, though! ;) I don't know whether the problem is in OpenJade, the stylesheets or JadeTeX (or any combination thereof). It isn't a major blocker, but I find it quite annoying nevertheless - and I'm sure the message can make newcomers panic when they first see it. For what it's worth, I'm using the latest packages from RedHat's RawHide: openjade-1.3-13, jadetex-3.3-1, docbook-style-dsssl-1.59-10. Not that I think it makes much of a difference, because I observed this also on older and different setups since maybe 1999. -- "We make a special art in an environment hostile to dreamers" (F Zappa) Rudi Chiarito SGML/XML, user interface, i18n Amiga Inc. rudi@amiga.com http://amiga.com/
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