Re: [help-texinfo] Overfull vbox messes up my index

[Gavin Smith]

On 2 February 2018 at 15:08, Andreas Falkenhahn <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm experiencing a strange issue with texi2pdf. I have a rather large texi
> file which is rendered into about 950 PDF pages including lots of index
> pages.
>
> The issue is triggered by adding one more item to the index. Note that
> the index is already several pages worth of keywords. Just one more
> @findex line then triggers the following warning:
>
>     Overfull \vbox (79.42743pt too high) has occurred while \output is active
>
> The effect is quite disastrous because now there is an empty page in
> the middle of the index pages and the ensuing index page after the
> empty page is somehow shifted down and runs all the way to the page
> bottom without respecting the page's bottom margin.
>
> How can I fix this please?

There have been problems with this before. Please make sure you are
using the most recent version of texinfo.tex from
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/. Failing that please email the
Texinfo file and I will try to investigate.