extra_mem_bot.context

extra_mem_bot.context

[ishamid]

Dear musketeers,

This is a note for aleph users. In _both_ texmf.cnf files that come with the 
full ConTeXt distribution, you must comment the line

%extra_mem_bot.context    =      4000000 
[\texmf\web2c, line 503]

%extra_mem_bot.context    = 2000000
[\texmf-local\web2c, line140]

otherwise aleph will crash upon over/underfull 
boxes.

This has actually been noted before; I don't know/remember if a solution was 
ever found.

Idris

============================
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: extra_mem_bot.context

[Adam Lindsay]

ishamid said this at Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:04:30 -0700:

>Dear musketeers,
>
>This is a note for aleph users. In _both_ texmf.cnf files that come with the 
>full ConTeXt distribution, you must comment the line
>
>%extra_mem_bot.context    =      4000000 
>[\texmf\web2c, line 503]
>
>%extra_mem_bot.context    = 2000000
>[\texmf-local\web2c, line140]
>
>otherwise aleph will crash upon over/underfull 
>boxes.
>
>This has actually been noted before; I don't know/remember if a solution was 
>ever found.

Now that's interesting.

That same bug was plaguing XeTeX versions through 0.88. Jonathan Kew
tracked it down and quashed it. It's a little surprising that the same
thing appeared in e-Omega, as well. Perhaps Jonathan can help you track
it down. (And perhaps kill the bug at a common source?)
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RE: extra_mem_bot.context

[ishamid]

>===== Original Message From "Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk> =====
>>This is a note for aleph users. In _both_ texmf.cnf files that come with the
>>full ConTeXt distribution, you must comment the line
>>
>>%extra_mem_bot.context    =      4000000
>>[\texmf\web2c, line 503]
>>
>>%extra_mem_bot.context    = 2000000
>>[\texmf-local\web2c, line140]
>>
>>otherwise aleph will crash upon over/underfull
>>boxes.
>>
>>This has actually been noted before; I don't know/remember if a solution was
>>ever found.
>
>Now that's interesting.
>
>That same bug was plaguing XeTeX versions through 0.88. Jonathan Kew
>tracked it down and quashed it. It's a little surprising that the same
>thing appeared in e-Omega, as well. Perhaps Jonathan can help you track
>it down. (And perhaps kill the bug at a common source?)

This is wonderful news! Although, unless someone else can dive into the aleph 
code we will have to wait for Giuseppe to return from the purgatory of writing 
his doctoral dissertation (soon I hope->)...

Any ideas for a workaround in the meantime?

Best
Idris

============================
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523