[tex-live] issue with input stack size

[Vladimir Lomov]

Hi Pablo.
** Pablo Rodríguez [2010-10-14 22:29:55 +0200]:

> On 10/14/2010 09:57 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>>2010/10/14 Pablo Rodríguez<oinos at web.de>:
>>>Hi there,
>>>
>>>I'm composing a presentation and for some weird reason I get the following
>>>error when I mark a text with \textit{} (\textbf{} is not problematic,
>>>though):
>>>
>>>    TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000].
>>>
>>>I added "stack_size = 10000" to /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf.cnf.
>>>
>>Are you sure that _all_ braces in your document are properly paired?
> 
> Thanks, Zdenek, for your reply.
> 
> Yes, I'm sure they are (it works fine with bold).
> 
> I reported a bug at
> http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2010-October/018895.html and the
> issue seems to be a problem between fontspec and the slides document
> class.
> 
> But what I wondered is why editing the texmf.cnf file and generating
> format files again had not work.
> 
This may be unrelated but nevertheless, some time ago on this ML one
person (Alexander) posted example document which gives another error but
was related with fontspec _and_ polyglossia packages. Could you provide
minimal example that would help to track down the problem (imho, that
could be the one problem).

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WBR, Vladimir Lomov

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