[OS X TeX] Changing Tex parameters (retry)

[Christoph Schiller]

Thank you for your information. Also Gerben Wierda's
tex distribution can be compiled.
(I really think it is a high quality.) But I cannot find that file
(with unix find) nor any parameter of that name (using grep).
Does anybody else know? ( I really do not want to switch
to fink; that sounds like hours of work ...)

Christoph


On 14.04.2006, at 01:47, Martin Costabel wrote:

> 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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