stack size

[Hans Hagen]

At 11:54 AM 11/24/99 +0100, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
>At 11:14 24.11.1999 +0100, Peer Rappolt wrote:
>>How to increase the stack size of TeX ?
>
>texmf.cnf: stack_size
>After changing you should rebuild the formats.
>
>Before changing you should check, whether the cause is not a wrong
>written recursion:

>2. Often it is not possible to use \expandafter. For example, it is
>   not possible to jump over an unknown number of tokens, introduced
>   by #1, #2, ...
>   In this cases the ReturnAfter(Else)Fi-Trick can be used:

Or more straightforward, 

\if...
   \let\next\relax
\else
   \let\next\again
\fi
\next

Anyhow, as soon as a more advanced user interface is used one should
increase the stacksize and parametersize and a few more sizes anyway. In
general it does not harm tex to set them all rather high (take the hugetex
settings as an example). 

Hans  

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