At 10:52 AM 9/30/2002 -0500, Bill McClain wrote:
>I have found that with too large a text, linenumbering crashes with this
>error:
>
> ! Dimension too large.
> \doreshapebox #1#2#3#4->\ifdim \ht \oldshapebox
> =\zeropoint \setbox
>\newshap...
>
> \stopregelnummeren ...ance \linestepper \plusone }
> \global \advance
>\linenumb...
> l.10 \stoplinenumbering
>
>I reduced it to a test case:
>
>* * *
>\starttext
>\startlinenumbering
>
>% this is ok
>\dorecurse{1131}{Now is the time.\par}
>
>% this crashes
>\dorecurse{1132}{Now is the time.\par}
>
>\stoplinenumbering
>\stoptext
>* * *
>
>If I add "\setupinterlinespace[line=4ex]" it crashes before
>linecount=1131, but I did not experiment to find the maximum possible
>value for that case.
>
>Do I need to expand some resource?
no, just split up the chunks, has to do with the way this is implemented
1000 * 15pt per line => 15000 pt is pretty near the max box height of 16
kilopt
Hans
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