[XeTeX] Any progress on 16 open write file limit?

[Daniel Greenhoe]

Hi Bruno,

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Bruno Le Floch <blflatex at gmail.com> wrote:
> \usepackage{morewrites}

I tried it with \usepackage{index} (see below and attachments), but I
get the error
  ! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \tl_replace_in:Nnn

Any recommendations of what I should do?
Dan

\documentclass{book}
 \usepackage{morewrites}
 \usepackage{index}               % multiple index support
%---------------------------------------
 \newindex{indexA}{adx}{and}{Index A} % \openout03
 \newindex{indexB}{bdx}{bnd}{Index B} % \openout04
 \newindex{indexC}{cdx}{cnd}{Index C} % \openout05
 \newindex{indexD}{ddx}{dnd}{Index D} % \openout06
 \newindex{indexE}{edx}{end}{Index E} % \openout07
 \newindex{indexF}{fdx}{fnd}{Index F} % \openout08
 \newindex{indexG}{gdx}{gnd}{Index G} % \openout09
 \newindex{indexH}{hdx}{hnd}{Index H} % \openout10
 \newindex{indexI}{idx}{ind}{Index I} % \openout11
 \newindex{indexJ}{jdx}{jnd}{Index J} % \openout12
 \newindex{indexK}{kdx}{knd}{Index K} % \openout13
 \newindex{indexL}{ldx}{lnd}{Index L} % \openout14
 \newindex{indexM}{mdx}{mnd}{Index M} % \openout15
 \newindex{indexN}{ndx}{nnd}{Index N} % \openout16
 \newindex{indexO}{odx}{ond}{Index O} % \openout17
 \newindex{indexP}{pdx}{pnd}{Index P} % \openout18
 \newindex{indexQ}{qdx}{qnd}{Index Q} % \openout19
 \newindex{indexR}{rdx}{rnd}{Index R} % \openout20
 \newindex{indexS}{sdx}{snd}{Index S} % \openout21
 \newindex{indexT}{tdx}{tnd}{Index T} % \openout22
\pagestyle{empty}
\makeindex
\begin{document}
abc
%\tableofcontents
\end{document}



On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Bruno Le Floch <blflatex at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Has there been any progress on getting around the 16 open write file
>> limit and the associated crash message
>>   "No room for a new \write"?
>>
>> This has been causing me problems lately.
>
> \usepackage{morewrites}
>
> If you are using XeLaTeX (or any other *LaTeX). It won't work if
> filenames contain spaces, but I can get to it if someone gives me a
> clear specification of how \openout reads a filename.
>
> Regards,
> Bruno
>
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