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Document how to find TeX overflow boxes in our documentation build, per
details from Alvaro Herrera.
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml,v 1.81 2010/03/17 17:12:31 petere Exp $ -->
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml,v 1.82 2010/05/31 22:14:20 momjian Exp $ -->
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<title>Documentation</title>
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<title>Overflow Text</title>
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<para>
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Occasionally text is too wide for the printed margins, and in
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extreme cases, too wide for the printed page, e.g. non-wrapped
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text, wide tables. Overly wide text generates <quote>Overfull
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hbox</quote> messages in the TeX log output file, e.g.
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<filename>postgres-US.log</> or <filename>postgres-A4.log</>.
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There are 72 points in an inch so anything reported as over 72
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points too wide will probably not fit on the printed page (assuming
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one inch margins). To find the <acronym>SGML</acronym> text
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causing the overflow, find the first page number mentioned above
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the overflow message, e.g. <literal>[50 XXX]</> (page 50), and look
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at that page in the <acronym>PDF</acronym> file to see the overflow
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text and adjust the <acronym>SGML</acronym> accordingly.
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</para>
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