From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/25413 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Font memory issues ? Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:37:26 +0100 Message-ID: <43D014A6.8030901@elvenkind.com> References: <35AB8A55-351B-4B53-81D7-ED26F4652A69@trichotomic.net> <43C42D12.7020309@wxs.nl> <95E5C116-BA8D-42CC-A101-1B83BFEFD35B@trichotomic.net> <43C4BEC7.1050102@wxs.nl> <88E20D3D-0E24-417B-8B35-59B9AA0D27A9@trichotomic.net> <43C61319.3000104@wxs.nl> <43C6B66C.5000504@wxs.nl> <998CA16F-EC19-46D5-A067-5CD6716EE773@trichotomic.net> <850FBC5F-EFD3-4AAB-846C-73FB8FF2CAA3@trichotomic.net> <7A0FD463-98FA-4DB4-AE21-C284EEF5638F@uni-bonn.de> <43CD718A.5080405@wxs.nl> <85824E5F-150A-4456-AF00-1006FAEF14A5@trichotomic.net> <2C0863F6-A6A2-42E8-A05A-968919750F11@trichotomic.net> <43CFF671.8020107@elvenkind.com> <43D0082D.50103@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1137710229 2506 80.91.229.2 (19 Jan 2006 22:37:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:37:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tex-k@tug.org Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jan 19 23:37:09 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EziOn-0007pT-AF for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:36:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 064BE1287A; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:36:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07105-03-4; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:36:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DA5112870; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:36:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C271287A for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:36:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07105-03-3 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:36:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from post-24.mail.nl.demon.net (post-24.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.194]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id F283B12897 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:36:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from boo.demon.nl ([82.161.175.147]:47590 helo=[192.168.1.3]) by post-24.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1EziOE-000Abc-NA; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:36:22 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050215) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <43D0082D.50103@wxs.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:25413 Archived-At: Hans Hagen wrote: > Taco Hoekwater wrote: > >> Oh, d**mn. >> I just had a brainwave. >> >> From Web2c's tex.ch comes the following: >> >> @!inf_font_mem_size = 20000; >> @!sup_font_mem_size = 2000000; >> >> So font_memory cannot be set larger than 2000000 and not smaller >> than 20000. Out-of-bounds sizes are silently folded back in line, >> but that happens after the variable expansion is complete. That's >> why the debug switch still reports the values from texmf.cnf. >> >> So the actual problem here is the web2c runtime code inside TeX. >> >> You can recompile with a larger sup_font_mem_size, I guess. But >> otherwise you are out of luck. > > so, is it possible to increase the upper limit in the code? I guess so. I don't see any special reason for 2mln upper limit. font mem pointers are integers with rather straightforward usage, AFAIK. (CC to the tex-k list) Cheers, taco