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Re: DocBook to pdf via TeX
- To: ailbhe at ossifrage dot net
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook to pdf via TeX
- From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian dot rahtz at computing-services dot oxford dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 20:40:51 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- References: <20000911120710.A5372@frivolous.ossifrage.net>
Ailbhe Leamy writes:
> My DocBook document is too big for TeX, so will not convert to pdf
> using the db2pdf tool.
this is very likely an artefact of your TeX setup
> not alone in this (in fact, I know I'm not). So has anyone written a
> howto to solve this problem?
yes, read the TeX web2c documentation on configuring TeX's memory
constants
> Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
> 82 strings out of 44975
> 1257 string characters out of 351357
> 348000 words of memory out of 348001
> 12143 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+32500
> 9795 words of font info for 33 fonts, out of 400000 for 1000
> 14 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000
> 19i,1n,39p,287b,115s stack positions out of 1500i,500n,1500p,50000b,5000s
you increase all these limits in `kpsewhich texmf.cnf`, and then
rebuild the format files
this is documented in the jadetex manual as well, if you think I am
being terse.
Sebastian