This gives me PTSD.
Haha for real though 😅
Badness is over 9000
You didn’t even do \LaTeX
I’ve completely switched over to Typst and it’s so much better. All of the typesetting capabilities of LaTex but without 99% of the headache. Now all it needs is all of the neat little edge case extensions that LaTeX has gathered over the years. And possibly a real scripting language interface like LuaTex.
I’m sorry, but I won’t create my texts using a proprietary SaaS that will just eventually go away.
What do you mean? The typst compiler is open source. The proprietary stuff is just the web app, and it’s the equivalent to what Overleaf is to LaTeX (with essentially the same business model).
WTF is everyone going on about proprietary? The entire thing is under Apache 2.0 license. Where the hell do you even get the idea that Typst is proprietary?
I thought It was freely licenced?
Looks like I was wrong.
Nah, the image wouldn’t be on the cover, it’d be three pages later.
I don’t use Latex, but I have a ton of O’Reilly books and the Orly made me laugh hard.
There are many more ;)
Fantastic, thank you! I need my copy of Blaming the User right away.
That hbox is much more than 9.895pt too wide.
Maybe it’s a really really small book
badness 10000
My CV is still to this day in LateX and I still kinda regret that decision.
It just brought more headaches.
I’ve just converted some Latex university notes into slides using AI. It was butter smooth.
I never did figure out how to not get overfull hbox errors, does anyone know?
Reword your text to fit.
Aaah, LaTeX, where you don’t have to care about the formatting, but do have to care about which words to use so you don’t have to care about the formatting.
I also hate that warning, but it’s basically ”Can’t fit your text, with the font and properties you specified, into the box you specified without making it look like ass”
Easiest way to preserve formatting is to reword the text. Then again, would be nice if it didn’t happen all the time in my normal paragraphs as soon as I use a word with more than 10 characters…
It’s because LaTeX has abstracted away all the lovely plain TeX macros and people treat it as a way to not have to think about typography. This is a good explanation: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb14-2/tb39taylor-para.pdf
The microtype package helps a bit by squeezing letters.
AI is great for this btw.
