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From: ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
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Subject: Out of memory grinding PiCTeX pictures: what should I do?
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Date: 27 Apr 91 23:30:44 GMT
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I painfully learned PiCTeX so as to do some pictures... (*why*
does it have such weird coordinate system concepts?  Why not just
allow user to define size of picture in inches and specify 
(xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax)?????).  To be fair, the pictures are
lovely.  It's just a big pain to get 'em.  Has anyone done a awk
preprocessor for a more sensible language which generates
PiCTeX?

I have large quantitites of data and TeX blows up -- he says he's
out of memory.  What are my options?  Do I have to pickup TeX
from labrea and make it with larger arrays?

Thanks,
	-ans.

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Ajay Shah, (213)734-3930, ajayshah@usc.edu
                             The more things change, the more they stay insane.
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