On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 03:44:52PM +0300, Antuan Avdioukhine wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, William Park wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:04:02PM +0300, Antuan Avdioukhine wrote:
> > > ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=300].
> >
> > Edit /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf. For example,
> > stack_size = 600 % simultaneous input sources
> It does not work with 600, 1000, 4000 and even 16000! But anyway
> I'd changed code, '"-"' was changed to '<<->>', '<<' and '>>' are
> french-style quoting ligatures, and it works for now. Maybe tex overfulls
> when tries to translate '"-"' into openquote-minus-closequote? Thomas,
> maybe it is latex-specific?
What this demonstrates is that you ran TeX into an infinite loop
... and this is often why one exceeds TeX's capacity. My guess is
that now you have found the solution to your troubles that the
original stack_size = 300 will work fine.
Regards,
Greg Gamble
