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Re: TeX capacity exceeded,
- To: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian dot rahtz at computing-services dot oxford dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: TeX capacity exceeded,
- From: Nik Clayton <nik at nothing-going-on dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 16:40:02 +0000
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On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:48:59PM +0000, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> > >That sounds familiar. When processed, my book's 761 pages. The
> > >conversion using regular TeX is fine, but it bombs out when running
> > >pdftex.
> > >So much for Knuth's assertion that TeX doesn't have any bugs. <sigh>
>
> running out of memory isnt a bug. you have hit an internal constant
> limit. edit the source, and recompile. easier said than done, but its
> not a bug.
Any idea which constant limit I'm hitting?
Do you know if PassiveTeX has the same limits?
N
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