[XeTeX] XeLaTeX aborts without proper notification for large files

[Pander]

Hi Wilfred, Jonathan, others,

Well, I'm going to generate an index and table of contents. So splitting
it up is not an option, unless someone knows a way to do the splitting
with correct index and toc.

But, if I choose to, I can configure it to use ten times as many fonts,
just for this special document. ''Free as in beer'' ;) Only question is how.

As someone already guessed it, I'm making a very interesting font
catalogue which will be going into print. Also, the only way to find out
what the maximum is the printer can handle, is to find its limit by
increasing font_max. So any extra information on what other constants to
increase is very welcome.

As background information, first I tried the approach of including PNGs
rendered via command line Inkscape. This was working, but since XeLaTeX
can do 'everything' and I prefer doing all in TeX, I ran into this obstacle.

So, which packages do I need to rebuild? Only texlive-xetex or also others?

Regards,

Pander

Wilfred van Rooijen wrote:
> Hey Pander,
> 
> Why trying so hard to do something xelatex is apparently not supposed to do? Is there any reason to have all fonts in only one input file? You could also cut the job into several pieces (maybe even using a master tex file and appropriate \input{}), then later concatenate the resulting PDFs to make one document.
> 
> Cheers,
> Wilfred 
> 
> 
> --- On Tue, 2/3/09, Pander <pander at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
>> From: Pander <pander at users.sourceforge.net>
>> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] XeLaTeX aborts without proper notification for large files
>> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
>> Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 8:07 AM
>> Jonathan Kew wrote:
>>> On 30 Jan 2009, at 17:56, Pander wrote:
>>>
>>>> Peter Dyballa wrote:
>>>>> Am 30.01.2009 um 17:39 schrieb Pander:
>>>>>
>>>>>> If this error is related to some maximum
>> memory sizes of XeTeX,  
>>>>>> where
>>>>>> and how do I change these?
>>>>> First show us how you manage to define and use
>> 1,000 different fonts!
>>>>> This is an impossible task.
>>>> Make a python script that iterates over all the
>> fonts and generates a
>>>> TeX file using all those fonts. It works fine, but
>> only up to a  
>>>> certain
>>>> file size.
>>>>
>>>> What parameters do I need to tweek in order to be
>> able to successfully
>>>> run xelatex?
>>> There's a font_max parameter (see texmf.cnf) that
>> is probably set to  
>>> 5000; this is the maximum number of separate \font
>> definitions that  
>>> TeX can handle in a job.
>> in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf is
>>
>> % Total number of fonts. Must be >= 50 and <= 2000
>> (without tex.ch changes).
>> font_max = 2000
>>
>> How do I increate this over 2000 since my Ubuntu system
>> does not have a
>> tex.ch?
>>
>>> Note that if you load a font family with fontspec it
>> will use up  
>>> several \font definitions per family, as it tests
>> for various styles  
>>> and features, so the practical limit on font families
>> defined via  
>>> fontspec will be several times smaller.
>>>
>>> I can't imagine any good reason to require 1000
>> fonts in a single job.  
>>> If you're trying to produce a font catalogue,
>> simply do it in several  
>>> parts.
>>>
>>> JK
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