pdflatex port?

[Murray Taylor]

hugelatex changes a number of memory and other size limits

Snippings from the Makefile and so on

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root # cd /usr/ports/print/hugelatex

root # more Makefile 
(snip)
PORTNAME=               hugelatex
PORTVERSION=            1.0
(snip)
do-install:
(snip)
        ${CAT} ${FILESDIR}/texmf.cnf-add >>${TEXMF_CNF}
(snip)

root # ls
Makefile        README.html     files           pkg-descr      
pkg-plist       work

root# more files/texmf.cnf-add 

% hugelatex settings
% added by hugelatex package
main_memory.hugelatex = 1100000
param_size.hugelatex = 1500
stack_size.hugelatex = 1500
hash_extra.hugelatex = 15000
string_vacancies.hugelatex = 45000
pool_free.hugelatex = 47500 
nest_size.hugelatex = 500
save_size.hugelatex = 5000
pool_size.hugelatex = 500000
max_strings.hugelatex = 55000
font_mem_size.hugelatex= 400000

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HTH

mjt


On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 21:48, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:24:19AM +1000, Murray Taylor wrote:
> > # portversion -v | grep tex
> > hugelatex-1.0               =  up-to-date with port
> > 
> > # which pdflatex
> > /usr/local/bin/pdflatex
> > 
> > 
> > NB hugelatex is just TeTex with some limits resized...
> 
> I have recently been working on a big LaTeX project, with which I
> regularly ran into a "TeX capacity exceeded" error.  You mean I could
> use the hugelatex package for this?  Does it have other compile-time
> options set, like memory limitations and such?  I didn't know this was
> possible, so thanks!  
> 
> GH
> 
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