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I'm trying to recompile the document available here: https://github.com/rfitzp/elements but the page count is increasing a lot from the reference version here: http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/euclid/Elements.pdf

I think I tracked the problem to the Greek font (it uses the psgreek package). It seems the font being used is a big larger than the original font (even though it is the same package), also I'm getting many overfull \hbox warnings even when I turn \sloppy on. Why is that? I also suspect that hyphenation of Greek is not working at its full potential.

Also, due to the text not breaking where it was supposed to, the images are getting out of alignment. What can I do to fix this source?

I have no previous experience with LaTeX and I'm using MikTeX (with the psgreek package) and I'm generating the final PDF using latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf. I have to use this path because the original source uses EPS files.

EDIT: The real question here is: "Should a recompile looks always the same?".

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[continued] ... reading e.g. The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e, which will get you all the knowledge you need for a good start. As it stands, your question is what we label "too localized" and it is unfortunately likely to be closed. – doncherry Mar 19 '12 at 20:56
@doncherry, I thought about making a MWE, but in this particular case I think it will lost all the meaning on the question. In reality, my question is simply "should a recompile look always the same way?". I think the psgreek package is the responsable, should a package update (I don't know if my version is diferent) introduce a breaking change? – Luiz Borges Mar 19 '12 at 21:49

closed as too localized by lockstep, Joseph Wright♦ May 5 '12 at 21:48

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