[Tex/LaTex] Is it possible to make LaTeX mark overfull boxes in the output

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Is it possible to make LaTeX mark overfull boxes in the output, for example by drawing red rectangles in the PDF where the boxes overflow? The purpose — to more easily "see" where the problems are in the output.

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As David Carlisle and egreg said, you can use the draft option in most classes.

If you wish to do it by hand (for example, you need a final option to check for another package's rendering) or tune it, you can use

\overfullrule=1mm

in the document preamble.

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Try compiling with

pdflatex -file-line-error <filename>

That way, the .log file will generate C-style errors which begin with filename.tex:12:Error message, for an error on line 12; I think vim may even have built-in mechanisms for parsing these, or if not, making a regex for finding them in the log should not be hard.

As others have mentioned there are Vim plugins that have built in methods for dealing with LaTeX errors. Personally, the Vim-LaTeX (AKA the LaTeX suite) plugin annoys me. I think both AucTeX for vim and Vim LaTeX-box, but to each their own. They all have their own methods for dealing with errors.

[Tex/LaTex] A conflict between caption & longtable packages raises the “overfull \hbox” warning!

Turns out that caption package version is not expecting \LTleft to be set to 0pt.

setting

\setlength\LTleft{0pt plus \textwidth}
\setlength\LTright{0pt plus \textwidth}

centres the caption without affecting the table (as the fill glue in extracolsep cancels out this finite stretch)

You should also remove the center environment which does not affect the alignment but just adds spurious vertical space (which is probably why you set \LTpost negative)

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[Tex/LaTex] A conflict between caption & longtable packages raises the “overfull \hbox” warning!

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