Re: TeX capacity exceeded with metafun

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

andrea valle wrote:
> Now, as far as I understand it seems that I have to edit texmf.cnf.
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> In any case, I do not know in which way...
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> Thanks!
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> On 12 Mar 2006, at 11:19, andrea valle wrote:
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>> Hi to all,
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>> I'm plotting 10,000 little squares thus exceeding TeX capacity. I was
>> going to modify context.cnf (everything works with 5,000 squares).
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>> In particular, I'm  on macosx 10.3 with Gerben's distro. I am editing
>> this file:
>>   /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/context.cnf
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>> 1. is it correct?
>> 2. Above all, I'am obtaining:
>> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=8000000].
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>> Here's the log:
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>> If you really absolutely need more capacity,
>> you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.
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>> Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
>>   1108 strings out of 60272
>>   18484 string characters out of 602115
>>   8000001 words of memory out of 8000000
>>   38234 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000
>>   75018 words of font info for 37 fonts, out of 2000000 for 2000
>>   192 hyphenation exceptions out of 5000
>>   36i,2n,31p,223b,477s stack positions out of
>> 5000i,500n,6000p,200000b,40000s
>> PDF statistics:
>>   0 PDF objects out of 300000
>>   0 named destinations out of 131072
>>   1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000
>> No pages of output.
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>> But in context.cnf I have:
>> main_memory.context      = 2000000
>> main_memory.mpost        = 3000000
>> main_memory.metafun      = 3000000
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>> Now, I added one 0 to all these params, thus decuplicating the values,
>> but nothing changes.
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did you regenerate the formats? 

(btw adding a 0 will not work, duplicating may) 

Hans 

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