From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/25414 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Wooten Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Font memory issues ? Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:47:24 -0800 Message-ID: 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 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1137717349 26308 80.91.229.2 (20 Jan 2006 00:35:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:35:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jan 20 01:35:47 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 1EzkFg-0002P6-Mi for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:35:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A74F12862; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:35:39 +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 09172-04; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:35:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 651AC12830; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:35:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0958912830 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:35:33 +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 08436-03 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:35:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp112.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp112.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.211]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 579D11282F for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:35:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (qmail 34113 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2006 23:47:26 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.7?) (wooten.david@sbcglobal.net@69.106.41.125 with plain) by smtp112.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Jan 2006 23:47:26 -0000 In-Reply-To: <43D0082D.50103@wxs.nl> Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) 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:25414 Archived-At: 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