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Re: TeX capacity exceeded - final word?
- From: Kevin Conder <kconder at interaccess dot com>
- To: Thomas Colby <t dot colby at science-factory dot com>
- Cc: "docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org" <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 04:55:53 -0500 (CDT)
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: TeX capacity exceeded - final word?
- Reply-to: kevin at kevindumpscore dot com
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Thomas Colby wrote:
> "TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [grouping levels=255]" when I try to
> create a printable version with jadetex.
Did you tweak your texmf.cnf? It appears you should increase your
nest_size parameter. I'm currently publishing a manual that is 1000+ pages
long and I'm using a setting of "nest_size=500".
My manual is the Alternative Csound Reference Manual:
http://kevindumpscore.com/download.html
The hardest thing for me about producing a manual over 700 pages
was that eventually I came across a hard limit with the texmf.cnf file. No
matter how much I increased the max_strings parameter, it would not give
me a value greater than 32767. Come to find out there was a hard-coded
16-bit limit defined in my version of TeX!
I solved it by directly hacking the source code for TeX itself.
Unforunately, TeX isn't written in straight C code but in some obscure
dialect called Web. I had to figure its arcane syntax, increase the
ssup_max_strings parameter, and rebuild TeX. What a mess!
-- Kevin Conder, kevin@kevindumpscore.com