[pdftex] Re: TeX capacity exceeded

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

Daniel Schlieper <Daniel.Schlieper at Uni-Koeln.DE> reports on
04 Oct 2001 13:08:05 +0200:

>> ...
>> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=68236].
>> Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
>> ...
>>  68236 string characters out of 68236
>> ...

This can likely be fixed by creating a one-line texmf.cnf file in the
current directory (where your TeX files are) with a setting like this:

	max_strings = 100000

or, if you want this to apply only to pdflatex,

	max_strings.pdflatex = 100000

In the TeXlive-6 release, the texmf.cnf file is found in the path
texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf; you can find other adjustable parameters there.

You then need to set TEXMFCNF to search the current directory first:

	setenv TEXMFCNF .:

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