Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 16-12-2010 8:31, luigi scarso wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Marco Pessottomelmo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello there. Yesterday I was trying to typeset a very, very long document (about 3000 pages in A4). Well, mkiv died with a PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (stack

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 12/17/2010 07:52 AM, luigi scarso wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Jonas Steinn...@jonasstein.de wrote: Yesterday I was trying to typeset a very, very long document (about 3000 pages in A4). Well, mkiv died with a PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (stack overflow (out of

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-17 Thread Vedran Miletić
2010/12/17 Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com On 12/17/2010 07:52 AM, luigi scarso wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Jonas Steinn...@jonasstein.de wrote: Yesterday I was trying to typeset a very, very long document (about 3000 pages in A4). Well, mkiv died with a PANIC: unprotected

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-17 Thread Martin Schröder
2010/12/17 Vedran Miletić riva...@gmail.com: How high is the limit now? Just curious, since I saw LuaTeX building _a paragraph_ lasting few hundred pages without problems (on the other hand, pdfTeX couldn't do it). Which limit? For the simple knuth case most likely the size of your harddisk is

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 12/17/2010 10:44 AM, Vedran Miletić wrote: How high is the limit now? There is nothing hardcoded anywhere, but I suspect that after a few million pages some limit somewhere will be reached eventually: either the harddisk gets full, or your pdf reader will be unable to open the pdf due to

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 17-12-2010 10:44, Vedran Miletić wrote: How high is the limit now? Just curious, since I saw LuaTeX building _a paragraph_ lasting few hundred pages without problems (on the other hand, pdfTeX couldn't do it). I've done tests with tens of thousands of pages with mkiv with no problem so

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-17 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Friday 17 December 2010 10:49:27 Martin Schröder wrote: And you'll get problems with pdfs with millions of objects (i.e. pages), as readers can't cope with them. Which readers: do you refer to computer programs or to humans? (This is what Herbert Simon calls bounded rationality.) Alan

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-17 Thread Martin Schröder
2010/12/17 Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com: pdf due to its internal limits (luatex will happily create 10GB pdfs). The code allows ca. 1TB; that should be enough for everyone (I hope I don't live to see the day that it isn't :). Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-17 Thread Martin Schröder
2010/12/17 Alan BRASLAU alan.bras...@cea.fr: Which readers: do you refer to computer programs or to humans? Programs. You'll hit implementation limits in Adobe Reader. Best Martin ___ If your question is of

[NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-16 Thread Marco Pessotto
Hello there. Yesterday I was trying to typeset a very, very long document (about 3000 pages in A4). Well, mkiv died with a PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (stack overflow (out of stack space)) It's easily reproducible with a simple \starttext \dorecurse{5}{ \input knuth }

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-16 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Marco Pessotto melmo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello there. Yesterday I was trying to typeset a very, very long document (about 3000 pages in A4). Well, mkiv died with a PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (stack overflow (out of stack space)) It's

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-16 Thread Jonas Stein
Yesterday I was trying to typeset a very, very long document (about 3000 pages in A4). Well, mkiv died with a PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (stack overflow (out of stack space)) It's easily reproducible with a simple \starttext \dorecurse{5}{ \input knuth } Once

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-16 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Jonas Stein n...@jonasstein.de wrote: Yesterday I was trying to typeset a very, very long document (about 3000 pages in A4). Well, mkiv died with a PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (stack overflow (out of stack space)) It's easily reproducible