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From: duncan@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Shan D Duncan)
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Subject: Re: Big TeX (corrected) mg3b, pictex questions
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Subject: Re: Big TeX corrected
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From article <4259@uwm.edu>, by duncan@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Shan D Duncan):
> 
> References: <1117@uvicctr.UVic.CA.UUCP>
> 
> 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...
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^  Sould be the AmigaTeX manual




> 
> "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 TeXbook 
                   ^^^^   here is where I quote the TeXBook by Knuth!
                  

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.
> 
> 
> 


gesssshhhh  our software didn't want to post this...  tried
another route via different software and messed up the posting!
Corrected above.

Sorry!


As long as I am posting... does anybody have pictex running on the amiga?


Does anybody have a set of macros to connect amigatex with mg3b?
I did something like this in a hurry to the texify example in the
AmigaTeX manual but haven't had time to look at the toerror file:


/* This file texify's its argument */



if ~show('Libraries', 'rexxsupport.library') then
	if ~addlib('rexxsupport.library', 0, -30, 0) then do
		'rexx-display "Can''t open rexx support library!"'
		exit 2
		end




'rexx-buffer' buffer

'save-buffer'

filename = buffer.1
options failat 5
if showlist('Ports','AmigaTeX')=0 then exit
address 'AmigaTeX'
'Abort'
i= 0
do while RC ~= 0
   'NextPrompt'
   'Abort'
   if i > 10 then exit
end
'TeXify' filename
exit












_Thank_you_


-Shan