Re: tablecolumns

["Haseloff, Lutz" <Lutz.Haseloff@mdf.brandenburg.de>]

Hi Hans, Hi all,

> Since the max number of columns is limited in tex, I should use a box
stack
> [slower] but i can default to a larger value for etex. What is the max
> needed? 

I just began to do a database query via Java JDBC.
The Result i wanted to format with ConTeXt.
I now don´t know the max needed, 17 are ok for now.

> You can change the 16 in core-tbl.tex into a larger value, of patch
core-tbl: 
> 
>    \tabulatewidth\!!zeropoint
>    |#1X|\relax
>    \dorecurse\tabulatecolumns
>      {\doifundefinedelse{\@@tabbox@@\recurselevel}
>         {\expandafter\newbox\csname\@@tabbox@@\recurselevel\endcsname}%
> 
> {\global\setbox\csname\@@tabbox@@\recurselevel\endcsname\box\voidb@x}}%
> 
> (add the \dorecurse after |#1X|\relax) which is a dynamic allocator. I'll
> change this. 

This works fine for me.

Greetings

Lutz

Very off topic:

has someone experience in starting
a texexec run from within a Java Program?

my program for winnt

import java.io.*;
public class test {
public static void main (String args[]) {
String Kommando[] = {"cmd.exe","/c","texexec","bpl"};
    try {
     Runtime.getRuntime().exec(Kommando);
    } catch (Exception e) {
      System.err.println(e.toString());
    }
}
}

pdfetex breaks with a stack overflow.

bpl.log:

entering extended mode
**&cont-en bpl
(./bpl.tex{c:/fpTeX/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg
Error: pdfetex.exe
Error: pdfetex.exe
...(>50000 lines)
Error: pdfetex.exe
Er