Re: Font memory issues ?

[David Wooten <dw@trichotomic.net>]

Well, it is certainly very good to know that I'm not crazy (this time  
round). Thanks very much for tracking this down.

Hans' suggestion works very well---the typescript file is pretty big  
for this font family, so there were quite a few fonts set up with hz  
that have no need for them.

Many thanks, and if the chance arises (perhaps in San Francisco),  
many beers.

David

On Jan 19, 2006, at 1:44 PM, 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? hz  
> seems to need it
> for the moment a way out is to limit hz to the regular font shape,  
> i.e. don't use it for bold, italic, slanted etc
> another option is to limit the number of instances (steps)
> Hans