[tex-live] Possibility to enhance registers

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/9/24 Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk>:
> bernhard <bernhard.kleine at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> in the final stage of my book I encounter a crazy error:
>>
>> [213])) [214]
>> \openout2 = `Kap8/kap08_Rezeptoren.aux'.
>>
>> (./Kap8/kap08_Rezeptoren.tex Kapitel 8.
>> \openout3 = `DritteDeutscheEdition.mtc'.
>> \openout3 = `DritteDeutscheEdition.mtc'.
>> ! You can't use `\unpenalty' in vertical mode.
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This line shows the exact source of the problem, see my previous mail.


>> \mtc at BBR ->\unpenalty
>>                       \nopagebreak [4]
>> \sv at minitoc@ ...\leavevmode \mtc at zrule \\\mtc at BBR
>> \leftmargin \mtcindent \ri...
>> \minitoc@ ...ndottedtoclinep \fi \sv at minitoc@ [#1] }
>> <to be read again> \bigskip
>> l.5 \minitoc\bigskip
>>
>> Sorry...I usually can't take things from the current page.
>> Perhaps you can make the output routine do it.
>>
>> (./DritteDeutscheEdition.mtc8)
>
> this isn't particularly weird; a pity that minitoc isn't maintained any
> more, though.
>
>> It is not the code in the file which raises this error since I can using
>> excludeonly exclude entire chapters and the error appears again. I
>> have :
>>         {\centering
>>         \setcounter{minitocdepth}{2}
>>         \minitoc\bigskip
>>         }
>> at the beginning of any chapter.
>>
>> To remedy this situation I have in the texlive-directory (here
>> at /usr/local/texlive/texlive2011) the file texmf.cnf which has
>> drastically enhanced register values for tex-variables, however to no
>> avail.
>>
>> My question is: Where can I increase texmf-registers to have all the 420
>> pages of my book compiled without this annoying error which crept in
>> earlier this year.
>
> it doesn't sound like an error related to shortage of registers.
>
>> And I donot think this is OT since it deals with configuring tex in
>> texlive.
>
> doesn't sound like that.  even if your idea of numbers of registers is
> correct (check it by loading etex.sty immediately after \documentclass
> line(s), which will give you all the registers tex can offer), it's not
> a config value.
>
> (actually finding what the problem is, isn't necessarily going to be
> easy with the info you've given.)
>
> r



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