Eckart Begemann wrote:
> I encountered a serious problem ... :-(
> A simple LaTeX-code not that long (some 13 pages I think)
> makes LaTeX go out of capacity, when
> musixlyr is trying to allocate a newdimen
> (\setlyrics{}{}).
do you actually _need_ to be running musix* over latex? plain tex
uses noticeably fewer registers of most sorts.
> I cannot quite imagine this, I used to have much bigger source files,
> with a lot more musics. Does MusixLyr swallow a lot of memory?
> Even hugelatex (MiKTeX) crashes at the same spot.
all (knuthian) tex implementations will fall over in the same place:
there's a fixed limit to the number of dimens and the like, much
harder coded than the limit on the size of pool and so on.
fwiw, both omega and e-tex offer some help in this area. not really
much of a help to you in your present predicament...
> Any similar experiences?
encountered it once when typesetting a paper for tugboat. the paper
used pictex, and then macros on top of that. i solved the problem by
overlaying some of pictex's `scratch' registers on latex's ones.
a similar technique may be possible in this case. ... if no-one comes
up with an alternative solution, i'll take a look tomorrow when i'm
near ctan.
robin fairbairns
