Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Hi all (esp. Taco ;-),
here's a very fundamental question about the bib-module: my main bib
file now has ~ 1,700 entries. When I tried to compile a file which
includes bibliographic references in mkii, I got this error:
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [hash
On Dec 21, 2007, at 1:47 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
you can increase the hash size in texmf.cnf ... if so, then also
remake
the format
in mkiv we need less hash space if only because it got rid of
encodings
and regimes
Indeed, increasing the hash_extra size and rebuilding the formats
Hi all (esp. Taco ;-),
here's a very fundamental question about the bib-module: my main bib
file now has ~ 1,700 entries. When I tried to compile a file which
includes bibliographic references in mkii, I got this error:
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [hash size=6].
\@@shortsectionnumber
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
The same file compiles without errors in mkiv. So I'm curious: Is it
possible that the bib file is just too large for mkii?
Just to be complete: In general, the answer to that is yes, even for
mkiv.
Best wishes,
Taco
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On Dec 21, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Just to be complete: In general, the answer to that is yes, even for
mkiv.
Best wishes,
Taco
Hmm, okay, thanks, Taco. Any rule of thumb for just how big is too big?
Depends on your texmf.cnf. IIRC, I have
On Dec 21, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Just to be complete: In general, the answer to that is yes, even for
mkiv.
Best wishes,
Taco
Hmm, okay, thanks, Taco. Any rule of thumb for just how big is too
big? And what do people do in cases like this? One of the wonderful
things
On Dec 21, 2007, at 4:56 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Depends on your texmf.cnf. IIRC, I have twenty or so csnames per
entry, and the baseline for mkii is a bit over 40.000 csnames,
so you need about
40.000 + 20 * (numberofentries)
And what do people do in cases like this? One of the
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Ah, okay! Thanks a lot. So I will pit my ever larger and larger bib
files against the ever more powerful computers that we will have in
the future and let them fight it out!
we can manage the bib data in lua and do all bibtex actions there,
Hans
