On Thursday 20 August 2009 10:09:21 am Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thursday 20 August 2009 10:00:01 Helge Hafting wrote:
> > I tested 30pt once just for fun - it looked fine.
> >
> > I believe LaTeX is limited by 32-bit numbers, and fail on distances
> > longer than about 6 meters
>
> Unless of course you have a 64 bit computer.
>
And compiled the LaTeX executable on that computer.  I assume the limitation 
is the width of a short integer in the compiler.  Most 32-bit programs will 
run on a 64-bit computer (at least they will on the laptop I'm typing this 
on, which is running 64-bit Linux) but that doesn't mean they have 64-bit 
integers.  I compiled LaTeX from source, so larger sizes might work for me, 
but I don't plan to have pages larger than 6m, so it really doesn't matter.

Les


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