Hi ! Thanks a lot ! That saved my day ! I needed to add « mpost-options « -numbersystem=double » in my /usr/local/etc/therion.ini (in my old MacBook Pro). It doesn’t work if I add this line in the therion.ini file present at my home directory.
Cheers, Xavier > Le 8 oct. 2025 à 20:26, Martin Budaj <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Hi, > > the limits are _much_ higher if you set metapost to use 'double mode' and tex > to use 'macro mode'. No need to worry about the cave size. > > See thbook, Appendix, chapter Limitations -- check especially the footnotes. > > Martin > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM James Begley <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Hiya, >> >> Line 218 of the Therion TODO.S file (see >> https://github.com/therion/therion/blob/master/TODO.S) says: >> >> + add support for multiple metapost files (more than 4096 scraps) >> >> So there was a known limit of 4,096 scraps at some point. Note that the >> TODO.S file hasn't been updated for many years, so that limitation might >> have been addressed at some point. >> >> Cheers, >> James >> >> On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 at 14:39, Benedikt Hallinger via Therion >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> Good questionQ >>> in the hirlatz project, we "just" reach: "[3106]". >>> >>> >>> Am 2025-10-08 15:23, schrieb Xavier Robert via Therion: >>> > Hi all, >>> > >>> > I am maintaining a quite big structured Therion database with more >>> > than 700 caves >>> > (https://github.com/robertxa/Topographies-Samoens_Folly). I am using >>> > Therion 6.3.3 (2025-01-06), TeX Live 2015 (MetaPost 1.999). >>> > Following a new session of exploration and surveys, I added some >>> > scraps in this database. I have no problem to run any compilation of >>> > separate caves. >>> > >>> > But since my last update, when I try to run a Therion compilation for >>> > the whole database to build the 3D view of the system >>> > (https://groupe-speleo-vulcain.com/wp-content/themes/custom_theme/3d/JB.html), >>> > I get an error during the « Preloading the plain mem file » : >>> > >>> > [...] >>> > [4090] [4091] [4092] [4093] [4094] [4095] >>> > ! Number is too large (4096). >>> > l.296920 beginfig(4096 >>> > ); >>> > [4096] >>> > ! Number is too large (4097). >>> > l.296923 beginfig(4097 >>> > ); >>> > [4097] >>> > … and so on… >>> > >>> > therion: error -- metapost exit code -- 512 >>> > >>> > I a m not sure, but I think that I have a total of 4102 objects (this >>> > is the last number with a similar error ; with a total of 4117 files >>> > written in thTMPDIR/). >>> > If I run Therion with the -d option, I see all the data.xxxx from 1 to >>> > 4102 in thTMPDIR/. The compressed log file is in attachement. >>> > >>> > I tried to recompile my database after commenting a small part of the >>> > database that I did not change recently. The compilation run well. >>> > >>> > So, I suspect that there is a limit in the number of objects (scraps >>> > ?) Therion (or mpost ?) can handle. Am I right ? >>> > >>> > Is there a way to get rid off this limitation ? >>> > >>> > Cheers, >>> > >>> > Xavier >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Therion mailing list >>> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> > https://mailman.speleo.sk/listinfo/therion >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Therion mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> https://mailman.speleo.sk/listinfo/therion >> _______________________________________________ >> Therion mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://mailman.speleo.sk/listinfo/therion > _______________________________________________ > Therion mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.speleo.sk/listinfo/therion
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