texinfo / texi2pdf question

jpbarto · 10-28-2004, 04:50 PM

All I have a texi source file which converts nicely into info and html using makeinfo. However when I try to run texi2pdf on the texi source, every section that is contained within a @code{} command causes an 'Underfull \hbox' error... how do I fix this?

Thanks,
jpbarto

ToniT · 10-31-2004, 06:58 PM

underful hbox is not fatal error. It just says that some of the lines are not long enough to span the whole paper so it won't necessarily look good.

jpbarto · 11-01-2004, 08:45 AM

Thanks for the answer. This next question may be coming out because I no next to nothing about printing (in terms of books, etc)... but why would it be a big deal if a line did not span the width of a page?

ToniT · 11-10-2004, 05:51 PM

In normal text it generally doesn't look good if some of the lines are not long enough. The text looks jumpy, unaligned and harder to focus on.

In case of code -blocks, this jumpines is intentional and meant to draw attention
(eg. compare correctly idented code to unidented code; there is a huge difference in understandability).

jpbarto · 11-10-2004, 07:09 PM

thanks again for the reply. I was using the @code command... is that not right? Perhaps it was complaining about another command I used, I'll have to double check as it has been a little while (2 weeks) since I was working with the docs.