I am in the process of proofreading a major XeTeX document of more than 600 pages. It is hardly surprising that there are quite a few cases of overfull \hboxes; I usually get about 150 of them.
I am wondering what you would view as the most effective way of dealing with them, considering that I am pressed for time and and would like to avoid dealing with each and every of them by hand.
Would you...
• change the document's global \pretolerance or \badness values in order to reduce the number of problems?
• set the document in draft mode and deal with the most conspicuous ones manually, by inserting sloppypar environments, and leave the less conspicuous ones as they are?
• or do you happen to have any other suggestions?
Thank you in advance! Thomas
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groups in math), or perhaps not, but if you are, then using a better generic markup before worrying about individual bad breaks is probably a good plan.