[pdftex] TeX as a composition server?

[Peter Davis]

On 10/26/2010 7:54 PM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 26 October 2010 Peter Davis wrote:
>
>   >  On 10/26/2010 7:24 PM, James Quirk wrote:
>   >  >>  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.
>   >
>   >  Ok, I tried forcing new paragraphs with \noindent, but I get the
>   >  same error.
>
> Use \par or a blank line


Either of those gives me:

Runaway argument?
{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nullam ut e\ETC.
! Paragraph ended before \loop was complete.
<to be read again>
                    \par
l.26


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