[tex-live] Fwd: [OS X TeX] Changing Tex parameters (retry)

[Gerben Wierda]

Some users are running into the maxima that TeX sets up for certain  
sizes. Are there any negative effects to increasing the maxima as  
suggested below?

Thanks,

G

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> From: Martin Costabel <costabel at wanadoo.fr>
> Date: 14 April 2006 01:47:35 GMT+02:00
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Changing Tex parameters (retry)
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> Christoph Schiller wrote:
>> As a user of the Minion font package, I need to redump  the
>> format in order to increase "words of font info" (tetex on Macosx),
>> the line that appears in the statistics in the log file.
>> What *exactly* do I have to do (at least for pdflatex)?
>> I have a clean, new tex installation, made with iinstaller, on OSX  
>> 10.4,
>> a few days ago.
>
> I know it won't help you immediately, but this is one of the  
> situations where the advantages of a self-compiled tex (for example  
> from Fink) are visible: Just for testing, I went into the build  
> directory of tetex, changed in the file texk/web2c/tex.ch  
> sup_font_mem_size from 2.000.000 to 8.000.000, and ran "make". Then  
> I copied the resulting pdfetex executable into /sw/bin, edited  
> web2c/texmf.cnf to increase font_mem_size to 5.000.000, and ran  
> sudo fmtutil-sys --refresh. All this took about 10 minutes (plus 10  
> minutes to find the right files and places to change). I see now in  
> the log file for example
>
>  16420 words of font info for 38 fonts, out of 5000000 for 2000
>
> -- 
> Martin
>
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