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From: duncan@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Shan D Duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Big TeX
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Date: 2 Jun 90 15:29:09 GMT
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From article <1117@uvicctr.UVic.CA.UUCP>, by climber@uvicctr.UVic.CA.UUCP (climber):
> Is there a PD or commercial version of Big Tex for the Amiga?  I have 
> a table that ordinary TeX (with 64k limit) choked on.  I had to get
> a very helpful friend with Big TeX on his IBM comp. to TeX it for
> me and send the .dvi file.  
> 
> Send any responses to climber@sol.UVic.ca
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Craig       AMIGAS ARE GREAT!!!!!!!!


Well I do not have any experience with commontex but I do have
AmigaTeX from radical eye.  And  under the heading of 
making TeX larger or smaller:

The variable memmax is used to store page data, macros and
othersuch things and can not be extended past 65500.  memtop 
has the same limitation.  If your version did not have these
values you could have created a new format file using initex.  This
has been done on our Univ. unix system to handle large jobs
especially when using pictex and is called btex.  We also have
blatex.  

Quoting the TeXbook...

"The memmax array is used to store page data, macros and almost
all other requirements of TEX; unfortunately, it cannot be
extended past 65500 elements."



Looking in the TeX book several components can be listed when you
get the message:

"TeX capacity exceeded sorry"

number of strings
pool size
main memory size
hash size
font memory
exception dictionary
input stack size
sematic nest size
parameter stack size
buffer size
save size
text input levels
grouping level
pattern memory


The macro \tracingstats set to a postivie value just before your 
the end of your job will print out your actural usage of the
first eleven things named above in the log file.


The version in of TeX in the TeXbook does not have a limit but it
appears AmigaTeX does.

Not sure about commontex for the amiga.

You might also try posting to comp.text.tex about commontex.