Re: TeX capacity exceeded in MikTeX

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 11:00 29/09/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
> > > ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [hash size=35000].
> > In MiKTeX the file is miktex.ini, not texmf.cnf; you should
> > find a hash_size=  entry there.
>
>There was no entry like this ;(
>But I created it (and also hash_size_def) in section MikTeX, pdfeTeX...
>I created new section Magic, too - and try changing other values, but
>nothing has effect with this size ;(
>
>I compared the simlest document in LaTeX with the simpliest document in
>ConTeXt - there was:
>- about 3000 multiletter control sequences out of 35000 in LaTeX
>- about 30000 ! in ConTeXt
>
>Why MikTeX don't support ConTeXt?... Why... ;)

i think that when you load a bunch of packages in latex and process a few 
docs, the number of control sequences will be larger that 3000 (not 30K) 
and demanding docs with lots of cross refs eat up hash space as well. Any 
tex today should be huge.

Hans

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