Re: code example wrapping

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > > > Also, is there any way to get a report of the lines that are too long?
> > >
> > > grep "Overfull hbox" from the tex log ...
> >
> > Can someone who can build the PDF docs post the output showing these
> > lines? I can't build the PDF docs here.
>
> There are 1853 such reports in the output I have for a US run, but they
> reference a line number in the TeX source not SGML, so it's not easy to
> see what they are referring to. For example
>
> Overfull \hbox (141.59937pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 65564--65564
> Overfull \hbox (28.1995pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 65612--65612
> Overfull \hbox (11.99951pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 65702--65702
> Overfull \hbox (17.3995pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 68738--68738
> Overfull \hbox (28.1995pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 68739--68739
>
>
> I think we could script extracting the TeX source that it refers to with
> some scripting.
>
> For now, the reports that are 4 digits or more points overfull are in
> paragraph at lines 268934 and following, which is just after this text:
>
> view is restricted to show only
> rows about tables that the current user can read.)
> For example, we might do:
>
> This is a very wide table in perform.sgml, lines 556ff. Maybe it can be
> displayed in \x for better formatting ... but then, the widest column is
> already too wide so maybe there's no point.

I have applied the attached documentation patch to explain how to find
TeX overflow boxes.

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