* breaking up long input into metapost pages
@ 2011-03-02 10:56 Hans van der Meer
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From: Hans van der Meer @ 2011-03-02 10:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I now have a long input file with many independent sections.
For the moment it is processed as follows:
\starttext
\startTEXpage
\startMPcode
% variable declarations
% macro definitions with drawing code
input input_data;
\stopMPcode
\stopTEXpage
\stoptext
Now this becomes a bit too large for one page, I tried a Metapost run in luatex but after taking some 12 GB of memory it gave up.
The idea is thus to have one contiguous input which at certain points produces a new startTEXpage. That will flush the internal memory I guess and makes long documents possible.
I'd rather not split the input_data in seperate files: making a thousand of more files seems no nice prospect to me.
Any ideas how to best structure things? I should mention that I have a lot of control over the writing of the input_data.
Hans van der Meer
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