On 5/2/07, Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > As it's a demerit, it's in units of badness squared, > so I suspect >= 10 000 ^ 2. Yup, that's right. One surefire way to do it is to set to the largest maximum number in TeX, namely 2^{31} - 1 = 2147483647. -- Morten