Michal Suszko wrote: > * Taco Hoekwater <t...@elvenkind.com> [2010-03-17 10:27:41 +0100]: > >> Michal Suszko wrote: >>> I'm preparing quite long presentation -- nearly 3000 sides, >>> 900 figures (500 distinct PNG files). >>> I'm using ConTeXt MkIV installed using minimals (2010.03.12 19:49). >>> Recently I'm hitting MetaPost capacity limit on expansion depth: >>> >>> !mplib : mp terminal: ! MetaPost capacity exceeded, sorry >>> [expansion depth=10000]. >>> >>> Increasing expand_depth in texmf.cnf and regenerating formats with >>> context --make doesn't help. expansion depth is still at 10000 in error >>> message. >> This is because recursion in metapost takes place on the C stack, >> and that does not allow growth. But do you really need 10000 expansion >> levels? That seems a little weird. > > I don't see where this could come from. If I split document in half both > parts are building fine.
It could be a bug in mplib then, but I can't test that without an input example. Can you create me one? (it could consist of one massive \dorecurse call, I assume?). Best wishes, Taco ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
