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From: richmace@images.cs.und.ac.za (Richard Mace)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: AMSLaTeX: pool size exceeded?!!!!
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.093421.4976@images.cs.und.ac.za>
Date: 24 Apr 91 09:34:21 GMT
Organization: Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
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I have installed AMSLaTeX with our current version of PCTeX (v3.0)
but have trouble TeXing even the smallest programs. The error

   !TeX capacity exceeded, sorry  [pool size=8135]

almost always crops up. Looking at the log file, one sees that it is the
number of string characters that cause the error (p44 of the AMSLaTeX
Users Guide shows that one needs 8444 string characters to use the 
`amsart' style file). My question is: do we need to increase the pool 
size (it certainly seems so), and if so, how does one go about this?

Any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated. [I have tagged the
.log and .tex files to the end of this article for your perusal]

-Richard Mace
richmace@images.cs.und.ac.za
Plasma Physics Research Institute
University of Natal, Durban

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The .log file

This is TeX, Version 3.0 (preloaded format=lplain 91.4.19)  24 APR 1991 13:34
  (PCTeX 3.0, (c)Personal TeX, Inc 1990. S/N 101154)
**&lplain t
(F:\USERS\MACE\TEX\T.TEX
LaTeX Version 2.09 <15 Sep 1987>
(F:\PCTEX\TEXINPUT\AMSART.STY
Document style `AMSART' v1.0c <90/06/26> (RK, MJD)
English documentation          <90/06/26> (MJD)
(F:\PCTEX\TEXINPUT\AMSTEX.STY
Style option: `amstex'   v1.0b <29-AUG-1990> (FMi, RmS; MJD)
English documentation          <3-JUL-1990> (FMi, RmS; MJD)
(F:\PCTEX\TEXINPUT\AMSTEXT.STY
Style Option: `amstext' v1.0b  <90/02/05> (FMi and RmS)
English Documentation          <90/02/05> (FMi and RmS)
) (F:\PCTEX\TEXINPUT\AMSFONTS.STY
Style Option: `amsfonts' v1.0a <29-AUG-1990> (FMi, RmS; MJD)
English Documentation          <7-JUN-1990> (FMi, RmS; MJD)
\msa@group=\mathgroup5
\msb@group=\mathgroup6
\frak@@group=\mathgroup7
\bold@@group=\mathgroup8
\Mathstrutbox@=\box25
\@tempbox@every@size=\box26
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\big@size=\dimen99
\ex@=\dimen100
\minaw@=\dimen101
\dotsspace@=\muskip10
) (F:\PCTEX\TEXINPUT\AMSBSY.STY
Style Option: `amsbsy' v1.0b   <89/11/26> (FMi and RmS)
English Documentation          <89/11/26> (FMi and RmS)
\pmbraise@=\dimen102
)
\athelp@=\toks14
\intno@=\count78
\hashtoks@=\toks15
\minaw@=\dimen103
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\classnum@=\count79
\DOTSCASE@=\count80
\skewcharcount@=\count81
\familycount@=\count82
\pointcount@=\count83
\accentdimen@=\dimen105
\accentmu@=\count84
\uproot@=\count85
\leftroot@=\count86
\dspbrk@lvl=\count87
\tag@help=\toks16
\c@MaxMatrixCols=\count88
\and@=\count89
\andhelp@=\toks17
\@envbody=\toks18
\atcount@=\count90
\lwidth@=\dimen106
\rwidth@=\dimen107
\maxlwidth@=\dimen108
\maxrwidth@=\dimen109
\totwidth@=\dimen110
\lineht@=\dimen111
\savealignat@=\box28
\gwidth@=\dimen112
\gmaxwidth@=\dimen113
\glineht@=\dimen114
\multlinegap=\dimen115
\multlinetaggap@=\dimen116
\mwidth@=\dimen117
\mlineht@=\dimen118
\mtagbox@=\box29
\ltwidth@=\dimen119
\rtwidth@=\dimen120
) (F:\PCTEX\TEXINPUT\MARGID.STY
Style Option `margid' v1.0b <90/03/30> (FMi and RmS)
English Documentation     <90/01/21> (FMi and RmS)
)
\addressb@x=\box30
 (F:\PCTEX\TEXINPUT\AMSART11.STY (F:\PCTEX\TEXINPUT\AMSART10.STY
\normalparindent=\dimen121
))
\c@part=\count91
\c@section=\count92
\c@subsection=\count93
\c@subsubsection=\count94
\c@figure=\count95
\c@table=\count96

(F:\PCTEX\TEXINPUT\THEOREM.STY
Style option: `theorem' v2.1b  <90/06/04> (FMi)
English documentation as of    <90/06/04> (FMi)
\theorem@style=\toks19
\theorembodyfont=\toks20
\theorempreskipamount=\skip41
\theorempostskipamount=\skip42
(F:\PCTEX\TEXINPUT\THP.STY
Style option: `theorem-plain' v2.1b  <89/10/28> (FMi)
English documentation                <89/09/19> (FMi)
))) (F:\USERS\MACE\TEX\T.AUX)
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=8135].
cmr/m/n ...>cmr17 at20.736pt<25>cmr17 at24.8832pt 
                                                  
...
l.2 \begin{document}
                    
If you really absolutely need more capacity,
you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.            <<<<< Here's our problem! 
                                                                         |
                                                                         |
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:                               |
 786 strings out of 1935                                                 |
 8135 string characters out of 8135           <--------------------------
 36947 words of memory out of 131070
 2753 multiletter control sequences out of 5000
 8064 words of font info for 35 fonts, out of 65534 for 127
 14 hyphenation exceptions out of 307
 17i,3n,15p,307b,60s stack positions out of 200i,40n,60p,1500b,2000s
No pages of output.

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t.tex

\documentstyle[11pt]{amsart}
\begin{document}
\begin{gather}
\rho\left(\frac{\partial u}{\partial t} + u\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}\right) = 
-\frac{\partial \phi}{\partial x}  \\
c=d\\
s=t^3 -3x\\
\end{gather}
\end{document}