Hi, Thank you very much. I feel substantially less stupid.
I did try upgrading to luatex, but it turned out to be a nontrivial task: * On my iBook I installed MacTeX, but compiling with pdflualatex gave me font errors: it couldn't find font metrics for ecrm1200 despite the fact that ecrm1200.tfm is, in fact, installed and in the correct place. I've contact the MacTeX team for help about that. (But if anyone on the list has encountered this and knows a solution, please help!) * Setting up luatex on Fedora 10 went smoothly until it generated an error: SORRY CONTEXT NOW REQUIRES ETEX, exactly like that, in all caps. It also generated this error in a place that was not in plain sight! Searching online, I found information that Fedora 10 comes with TeX-Live 2007, not 2008, and the latest luatex requires TeX-Live 2008. At least one Fedora devel is talking about dropping TeX-Live altogether due to licensing issues: https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=66735&forum=11 "I'm much more inclined to propose that we drop texlive altogether. It is a licensing nightmare, a tangled bundle of millions of files with little apparent organizational structure, and no overarching licensing analysis. I started trying to do a license audit on texlive 2008, but it would probably take me at least a month of doing nothing except auditing texlive to finish it." ...so (since I need TeX for more than typing chants) I may have to switch distros altogether. Does anyone know whether it is relatively simple and/or wise to remove the current TeX-Live packages that Fedora provides, and download TeX-Live proper? i.e., is there a lot of hairy setup involved to TeX-Live? Even that wouldn't be so bad if it at least came with documentation. regards john perry -----Original Message----- >From: Elie Roux <[email protected]> >Sent: Apr 26, 2009 7:42 AM >To: John Perry <[email protected]> >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Gregorio-users] out of memory error?!? > >John Perry a écrit : >> * Has anyone else encountered this while typesetting large files of chant >> using gregorio? > >Hello, > >Yes, I did. > >> * Is it possible that this is due to a subtle error in my gabc? > >I don't think so. > >> * Is it likely I will encounter the error again? I'd like to add quite >> a few >> more chants to that file. > >Yes, it is possible. > >> * Are there any tips to avoiding this problem in alpha and/or >> gregorio? or any >> safe workarounds? > >Sure: you can use LuaTeX instead of Aleph. The advantage of LuaTeX is >that the memory it can use is not limited by an arbitrary value in >texmf.cnf, but by the memory of your computer, like any other program. >The luatextra and luainputenc packages will soon (next week I think) be >integrated into TeXLive 2008, so if you update you'll be able to use >LuaTeX quite safely. > >Thank you, >-- >Elie -- Jack Perry + [email protected] + http://cantanima.blogspot.com/ Cogito, ergo sum? Non. Cogito male, ergo... _______________________________________________ Gregorio-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users
