Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!DHDURZ1.BITNET!JL2 From: JL2@DHDURZ1.BITNET (Rainer Schoepf) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: RE: How do you increase font memory? Message-ID: <910304.122534.CET.JL2@DHDURZ1> Date: 4 Mar 91 12:13:53 GMT References: <0094518c.180f3c20.1119@vaxcar.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: INFO-TeX@SHSU.BITNET Organization: Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin Lines: 42 X-Unparsable-Date: Mon, 04 Mar 91 12:25:34 CET On Mon, 04 Mar 1991 09:31:08 EST MPI-FKF, Stuttgart, Germany said: > >You probably have Tex 2.9 for the VAX. It's a PASCAL program where all arrays >are addressed with 16-Bit integer variables. That means that no array can be >longer than 64 kByte. So the main memory of your TEX is probably smaller than >64 kByte, which is not enough for the Tex Primer. (I am having the same >problem). > >What you can do is get the most recent version of Tex (Tex 3.0 or Tex 2.99) >from the DECUS Tex tape. You need BigTex with lots of memory. So far, our Tex >wizards have refused to install 3.0. Supposedly there is something wrong with >it, maybe the German hyphenation doesn't work (maybe that won't affect you) or >something else. This has nothing to do with the question of C versus Pascal. It's very easy to have 32bit integer index arithmetic for the arrays, if you don't mind the additional memory requirements. You've just to increase some internal constants in the WEB change file. As to the problem of the german hyphenation pattern with TeX 3.x (the current version is 3.1, folks!): In 3.0 DEK added an error check that complains when one of the internal tables overflows during the INITeX run. Previously (in TeX 2.x) TeX would silently discard all hyphenation patterns that came after this overflow. So, the problem is not new, it only went unnoticed before. To load the large set of german hyphenation patterns into TeX, it is necessary to apply the respective patch devoloped by Klaus Guntermann, TH Darmstadt. This patch is, for example, included in the WEB2C distribution of TeX and (hopefully) available from all good servers. Rainer Sch\"opf ======================================================================== Dr. Rainer Schoepf Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin Heilbronner Str. 10 D-1000 Berlin 31 Federal Republic of Germany Email: ========================================================================