[pdftex] TeX as a composition server?

[James Quirk]

Peter,

> >
> Ok, I've tried this, but I get a "TeX capacity exceeded" error.  See below.
>  I've attached the file I used, which should produce 10000 pages of "Lorem
> ipsum ...".  Any clues appreciated.
Make sure you are forcing a new paragraph after
each chunk of text. Otherwise you'll be trying to
output a single paragraph of 10000 pages which
will naturally cause TeX grief.

James

> 
> Thanks!
> -pd
> 
> 
> tex "\nonstopmode\input" "LoremIpsum.tex"
> This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (MiKTeX 2.8)
> 
> (c:\Users\pfd\Documents\TeX\LoremIpsum.tex
> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=3000000].
> \body ...olestie convallis, leo neque suscipit lib
>                                                   ero, vitae consectetur
> tor...
> 
> \next ->\body
>               \let \next \iterate \else \let \next \relax \fi \next
> l.149 \ifnum\pageno<10000 \repeat
> 
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on LoremIpsum.log.
>