Thanks Thomas,
I've still no luck, but I think things are quite a bit clearer now.
I "stumbled" across an old fink installation, the existence of which
hadn't crossed my mind for quite some time. That is now gone.
I have also reinstalled my tex/context set-up via the i-Installer
just to clear the air.
Here is what I currently see: there are 3 cnf files that may be
involved:
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/context.cnf
Which declares:
% This file is mostly the same as the one that ships with
% texlive, but adapted for multiple trees as well as
% development in a non tds tree (i.e. hh's machine). This
% file is meant for context users.
%
% This file loads before texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf; beware :
% the selfish auto parent can get in the way especially when
% the binaries are located elsewhere. In case of multiple
% trees, one can best set the following ones manually.
I believe that Hans said this was just an example file (?), but it
has the memory.context settings including:
font_max.context = 2000
font_mem_size.context = 1000000
main_memory.context = 2000000
Second, there is:
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
Which is referred to in the above context.cnf, and which declares:
% original texmf.cnf -- runtime path configuration file for kpathsea.
% (If you change or delete `original' on the previous line, the
% distribution won't install its version over yours.)
% Public domain.
[Stuff skipped]
% Earlier entries (in the same or another file) override later ones,
and
% an environment variable foo overrides any texmf.cnf definition of
foo.
This file also has memory settings, such as:
% ConTeXt is a memory hog...
main_memory.context = 2000000 % Keep total within 8000000 limit
extra_mem_bot.context = 4000000
% Words of font info for TeX (total size of all TFM files,
approximately).
font_mem_size = 2000000
% Total number of fonts. Must be >= 50 and <= 2000 (without tex.ch
changes).
font_max = 2000
And finally,
/usr/local/teTeX/texmf.cnf
Which is identified by
kpsewhich texmf.cnf
and which has no memory settings.
I have tried changing the memory settings in each file (that means
adding them to /usr/local/teTeX/texmf.cnf), raising the main_memory
to 3000000 and the font_mem_size likewise to 3000000, and then
running texexec --make --all. No change in the resulting readout:
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
4681 strings out of 60921
74346 string characters out of 610603
4609149 words of memory out of 7114466
40727 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000
1927616 words of font info for 332 fonts, out of 2000000 for 2000
232 hyphenation exceptions out of 5000
62i,21n,81p,1198b,1755s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,6000p,
200000b,40000s
PDF statistics:
170 PDF objects out of 300000
0 named destinations out of 131072
109061 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 128383
At this point I would very much like to be embarrassed by a simple,
too-obvious pointer ;)
Thanks very much,
David
On Jan 17, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
1. Don't use texconfig for context, use texexec --make --all
2. If you use texonfig, the command is texconfig-sys, or you'll end
up having inconsistent files for different users.
Best
Thomas
On Jan 17, 2006, at 6:35 PM, David Wooten wrote:
Hmm, interesting. I used "texconfig init". No, there seems to be
no change if I rename it.
Thanks,
David
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