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I was reading an old TUGboat article about "sensible defaults" where the author set \tolerance to 250 and no \emergencystretch or \hfuzz.

Now, my columns usually end up being around 55-65 characters wide, which isn't that wide, but in any longer text I'm lucky if I can stay under badness 1000 in underfull \hboxs. Some of those can be hyphenated or otherwise manipulated away, but 250 is hard to reach.

Is this just me? I'm curious where you usually land with \tolerance and badness? (For comparison maybe also mention the width of your paragraphs?)

I have recently found that I don't have to alter my base .tex files when I write a report, take notes etc like I use to. I'd like to upload them on a repo since at this point I think they might actually be of help to somebody.

I have been using LaTeX for a few years started on Lyx, moved on to Overleaf and finally I now use Texmaker. All this to say I am not overly familiar with styles/classes etc. Is there any standard practices I sould know when sharing a template? Do i need to seperate the preable for example? Is there anything like a requirements.txt file for the packages? Or is a single .tex file the norm? I'd like to have something usable up for anyone that might run into the same issues.

Any major breakthroughs to cheer? Headaches to vent about? Is there a package you're glad to have discovered or hope you'll never see again?

Anyone have recommendations for how best to make a packet of circle-the-word puzzles? I'll be using fairly short (5 letters?) English words around various themes as part of an activity packet for elementary-school-aged children.

Thanks in advance.

A perennial question each graduation cycle is how to create signature blanks for thesis and dissertation signature pages.

There are many approaches available. How would you go about it? (Or how did you go about it?)

I see this and one other LaTeX community in my searches ( !LaTeX@lemmy.ml )

In any case, I'm looking forward to a new community for asking and answering casual and long-form LaTeX questions.