[texhax] could someone give me an explanation as to why fontsize fails with an overfull box

[David Carlisle]

Phil,
I was referring to one specific paragraph, if you care to suggest some
settings that give a better result on that paragraph, please post.

David

On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 21:48, Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> David Carlisle wrote:
> > Putting  \sloppy before the text gives latex a bit more freedom to
> > stretch white space and avoid an overfull box.
> "a bit more freedom" ?  I think that counts as probable understatement
> of 2019 !
>
> > X:\Users\Philip Taylor>latex
> > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.19 (TeX Live 2018/W32TeX) (
> >  format=latex)
> >  restricted \write18 enabled.
> > **\message {\meaning \sloppy}
> > entering extended mode
> > LaTeX2e <2018-04-01> patch level 5
> > macro:->\tolerance 9999\emergencystretch 3em\hfuzz .5\p@ \vfuzz \hfuzz
>
> The \hfuzz/\vfuzz are modest; the \tolerance and \emergencystretch
> excessive, IMHO.
>
> ** Phil.
>