[R] Problems with make pdf (R-patched_2002-07-15.tar.gz)

Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com
Wed Jul 17 15:03:56 CEST 2002 

Those messages from from TeX, which is quite diligent in making sure the
final output looks good.  

TeX compose pages by putting together "boxes", and text/symbols/etc go in
the boxes.  When the horizontal boxes don't fill up the space, you can a
underfull warning with a "badness" rating.  Typical symptom of underfull
hbox is that the line has very few words and gets "stretched out" to fill
the line.

By analogy I suppose you can guess what overfull hbox means.  The typical
symptom is a line going over the right margin.  In draft mode, TeX would
print a black rectangle at the end of an overfull line.

These kinds of things are nearly impossible to fix for documentation that
can be processed into multiple formats.  You still get the whole thing, just
not as nice looking as TeX think they should be.

Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Agustin Lobo [mailto:alobo at paleo.ija.csic.es]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 7:59 AM
> To: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Cc: r-help
> Subject: Re: [R] Problems with make pdf (R-patched_2002-07-15.tar.gz)
> 
> 
> My execution 
> make pdf > make_pdf_out.txt
> 
> creates a file make_pdf_out.txt of 148753 bytes, with many lines
> such as:
> Underfull \hbox (badness 5548) in paragraph at lines 695--697
> or 
> Overfull \hbox (23.9801pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 26468--26468
>  []           \T1/aett/m/n/10 xlab = NULL, ylab = 
> deparse(substitute(x)),
> frame
> .plot = is.num, ...)[]
> [474] [475] [476] [477] [478] [479]
> 
> 
> Should I send this file somewhere?
> 
> Agus
> 
> 
> Dr. Agustin Lobo
> Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC)
> Lluis Sole Sabaris s/n
> 08028 Barcelona SPAIN
> tel 34 93409 5410
> fax 34 93411 0012
> alobo at ija.csic.es
> 
> 
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> > What precisely do you consider to be `garbage'?  make pdf 
> does create
> > hyperlinks and so you should expect more processing than make dvi.
> > 
> > >From the extract below, either you interrupted on page 30 
> or there was
> > a fatal error in pdftex on that page.  But, that is nothing 
> to do with
> > `garbage'.
> > 
> > On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Agustin Lobo wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > After configure, make and make check on
> > > a linux Suse 7.3 box, I run
> > > make dvi and make info with no problems but get
> > > a lot of garbage to my screen during make pdf.
> > > Is this normal? Is there a bug in this part
> > > of the installation?
> > >
> > > This is part of what I get on the screen:
> > >
> > > humboldt:/usr/local/R-patched # make pdf
> > > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-patched/doc'
> > > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/R-patched/doc/manual'
> > > PDF/LaTeX documentation: reference index ...
> > > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1)
> > > [/var/lib/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg]
> > > LaTeX2e <2000/06/01>
> > > Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, 
> french, german,
> > > ngerman, n
> > > ohyphenation, loaded.
> > >
> > > (refman.tex (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/book.cls
> > > Document Class: book 2000/05/19 v1.4b Standard LaTeX 
> document class
> > > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/bk10.clo)) 
> (../../share/texmf/Rd.sty
> > > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ifthen.sty)
> > >
> > > (many other /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/...)
> > >
> > > Implicit mode ON; LaTeX internals redefined
> > > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/backref.sty))
> > > *hyperref using default driver hpdftex*
> > > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/hpdftex.def
> > > ...
> > >
> > > Writing index file refman.idx
> > > No file refman.aux.
> > > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/nameref.sty) (refman.out)
> > > (refman.out)
> > > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ae/t1aess.fd) (version.tex)
> > > (../../share/texmf/omsaer.fd) 
> [1[/var/lib/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map]]
> > > [1] [2] (base-pkg.tex
> > > Chapter 1.
> > > [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] 
> [14] [15] [16]
> > > [17]
> > > [18]
> > > Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while 
> \output is active [19]
> > > [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] 
> [30make[2]: *** Deleting
> > > file `refman.pdf']
> > >
> > > etc
> > >
> > > Agus
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > >
> > > Dr. Agustin Lobo
> > > Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC)
> > > Lluis Sole Sabaris s/n
> > > 08028 Barcelona SPAIN
> > > tel 34 93409 5410
> > > fax 34 93411 0012
> > > alobo at ija.csic.es
> > >
> > >
> > > 
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