Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!VAXCAR.MPI-STUTTGART.MPG.DE!stzo From: stzo@VAXCAR.MPI-STUTTGART.MPG.DE ("MPI-FKF, Stuttgart, Germany") Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: RE: How do you increase font memory? Message-ID: <0094518c.180f3c20.1119@vaxcap.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de> Date: 4 Mar 91 14:31:08 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: INFO-TeX@SHSW.BITNET Lines: 46 Date sent: 4-MAR-1991 09:23:17 >From: "Dr Galt, I presume?" >Subject: How do you increase font memory? > >Hello all, > >I just tried creating the TeX Primer off of the Fileserv. TeX did an >emergency stop and said that it was out of font memory and couldn't >load any more fonts. I did a little exploring, but all I got was, >"A TeX wizard can increase this space for you." > >So, are there any TeX wizards out there who can help me? How is the font >memory space increased? I am running TeX on a VAX with VMS 5.4-1, if that >makes a difference. > >Thanks in advance, >Dr. John :-{) 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. What I did was the following: I FTP'ed the primer to the nearest DEC 5000 running ULTRIX, where we have Tex 2.99 installed. I printed the Primer from there. (Tex under ULTRIX is a totally different ball game. Tex is a C program under ULTRIX, not PASCAL, so anything goes.) Regards Stefan *************************************************************************** Stefan Zollner Max-Planck-Institut fuer Festkoerperforschung Heisenbergstr. 1, D-7000 Stuttgart 80, Germany Ph: (0711) 6860-735 FAX: (0711) 678 7934 BITNET: STZO @ DS0MPI11 (COMPAREX 778 - VM/CMS) InterNet: STZO @ vaxcar.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de (MicroVax II - VMS 5.3.1) STZO @ comp778.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de (COMPAREX 778 - VM/CMS) ***************************************************************************