On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > On 20-3-2012 06:49, Kip Warner wrote: >> >> On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 06:46 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >>> >>> TeX has it’s problem with certain errors, accept it. >> >> >> It is not a problem with the program raising an error, it was how it >> went about doing it. It should not have to take down the entire >> operating system to indicate to the user that there was a non-intuitive >> syntactical error in typesetting. > > > tex is a macro language and that has benefits but also drawbacks; as soon as > you end up in unwanted expansion things can get nasty; anyhow, I get > > Runaway argument? > {before=\startlinecorrection ,after= \stoplinecorrection > }]{\dodoubleemptyYESone \ETC. > ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [token memory size=90996078]. > > which is not really a crash of my operating system; there is not much I can > do about this issue I fear. > Even here Runaway argument? {before=\startlinecorrection ,after=\stoplinecorrection }]{\dodoubleemptyYESone \ETC. ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [token memory size=188689465].
on Linux 32bit kernel (on a 64bit processor) -- is the example on a 64bit kernel ? -- luigi ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________