Hi, what do you think about increasing pool_size in texmf.cnf from 125000 to e.g. 250000, either as new default or at least for pdftex ?
I'm asking because recently I help TeXing a pretty standard phd thesis with ~140 pages which run out of string pool when using hyperref.sty with pdflatex. I'd guess that such problems might get more and more common and we should avoid such "ask a wizard" problems for plain users if possible. here are the memory usages for... latex: Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 4383 strings out of 10847 57092 string characters out of 70580 129155 words of memory out of 263001 6944 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+0 13901 words of font info for 49 fonts, out of 400000 for 1000 21 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000 27i,14n,27p,1078b,528s stack positions out of 300i,100n,500p,50000b,4000s pdflatex: ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=65009]. \label ...trip@prefix \meaning \@currentlabelname }\protected@write \@auxout... l.178 } If you really absolutely need more capacity, you can ask a wizard to enlarge me. Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 4982 strings out of 10428 65009 string characters out of 65009 125467 words of memory out of 263001 7516 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+0 14591 words of font info for 51 fonts, out of 400000 for 1000 21 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000 27i,14n,41p,843b,528s stack positions out of 300i,100n,500p,50000b,4000s ! ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file not finished! pdflatex with pool_size == 250000: Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 5565 strings out of 10428 78584 string characters out of 190009 146846 words of memory out of 263001 7871 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+0 14585 words of font info for 51 fonts, out of 400000 for 1000 21 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000 27i,14n,41p,843b,528s stack positions out of 300i,100n,500p,50000b,4000s Harald -- "I hope to die ___ _____ before I *have* to use Microsoft Word.", 0--,| /OOOOOOO\ Donald E. Knuth, 02-Oct-2001 in Tuebingen. <_/ / /OOOOOOOOOOO\ \ \/OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO\ \ OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO|// Harald Koenig \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ science+computing ag // / \\ \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^^^^ ^^^^^