>|I'm an idiot when it comes to TeXnical details, This would appear to be a Postscript, rather than a TeX, issue. I'm even more unknowledgeable about the former than the latter.
>|but I did notice this at line 153 of musixps.tex: >|% everything else is stored in PostScript variables. >|% If you run out of the PostScript dictionary used for >|% slurs, you can increase its size by changing the number >|% 200 in the first line of psslurs.pro to anything >|% reasonable. (The number says how many tokens can be >|% defined.) >|Did you try that? Yes: >|> I've tried increasing the size of the dictionary as >|> suggested in the comments in musixps.tex, to no avail. Is 2000 reasonable? Bob >|> -----Original Message----- >|> From: TeX-Music [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob >|> Tennent >|> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 7:10 AM >|> To: [email protected] >|> Subject: [Tex-music] musixps issues >|> >|> I'm having trouble with a large LaTeX document with many music extracts >|(in >|> fact, musixdoc.tex). The symptom is that ghostscript (in any form: >|ps2pdf, >|gv, >|> gsview,...) crashes. >|> The only *consistent* workaround is not to load musixps.tex. >|> >|> I can workaround any *particular* crash by doing apparently random >|things >|> unrelated to slurs etc., such as changing the font famly, changing the >|font >|> encoding, changing the font size for the table of contents, etc. But, >|> conversely, any small edit to the document can suddenly make the build >|fail >|> and I have to mess around with other changes until I can see the >|effect of >|> the edit (or view the dvi file). >|> >|> If I build the document without the chapter that loads musixps.tex, >|> everything works. But if I build *just* that chapter with the standard >|> preamble, everything works as well. This suggests some kind of >|Postscript >|> resource (such as maximum stack size) is insufficient. I've tried >|increasing the >|> size of the dictionary as suggested in the comments in musixps.tex, >|to no >|> avail. Any ideas? >|> >|> Bob T. >|> >|> P.S. Stanislav Kneifl, the author of musixps.tex, says "I am out of TeX >|> business for some time, so I am afraid I won't be of much help here." >|> ------------------------------- >|> [email protected] mailing list >|> If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to >|> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music >| >|------------------------------- >|[email protected] mailing list >|If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to >|http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music >| ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
