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From: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.)
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Subject: Re: OzTeX Capacity Exceeded
Keywords: oztex, error
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Date: 3 Aug 90 22:15:05 GMT
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This should be in the FAQ list...

In article <1633@idunno.Princeton.EDU>, chase@olympus.Princeton.EDU (Chris Chase) writes...
>I get the following error when using LaTeX within OzTeX:

>(DRIVER.aux
>! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [buffer size=500].

>The first time that I Latex the file DRIVER.tex everything is fine (that
>is when
>the DRIVER.aux file is created.) When I Latex the file again I get the above
>error when Oztex reads in the DRIVER.aux file. 

You have, somewhere in your document, a very long \caption
command. LaTeX writes out information for a list of figures and
list of tables even if it doesn't need to, and since it writes
out an entire caption as a single record... The fix is to replace
that caption command with a \caption with a shorter optional
argument. If you don't have a list of tables/figures, the
following works well:

\caption[]{...}

Note that you have to delete the .aux file before you can
proceed.

-dh

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