[tex-live] Error with TL 2015 (involving `floatrow')

[David Carlisle]

On 10 June 2016 at 07:04, Denis Bitouzé <dbitouze at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Le 19/06/15 à 22h49, Denis Bitouzé a écrit :
>
> > the following M (non) WE example:
> >
> > \documentclass{article}
> > \usepackage{kpfonts}
> > \usepackage{booktabs}
> > \usepackage{siunitx}
> > \usepackage{pgfplots}
> > \usepackage{floatrow}
> > \begin{document}
> > Foo
> > \end{document}
> >
> > used to compile like a charm with TL 2014 but fails to compile with an
> > up to date TL 2015 with error:
> >
> >   ┌────
> >   │ (/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/latex/floatrow/floatrow.sty
> >   │ (/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/latex/caption/caption3.sty)
> >   │ ! No room for a new \dimen .
> >   │ \ch at ck ...\else \errmessage {No room for a new #3}
> >   │                                                   \fi
> >   │ l.485 ...finable\flrow at foot{\newinsert\flrow at foot}
> >   │
> >   │ ?
> >   └────
>
> I noticed that this bug, due to (quoting David Carlisle):
>
>   "Line 485 of floatrow.sty should be
>
>    \@ifdefinable\flrow at foot{\newbox\flrow at foot}
>
>    not
>
>   \@ifdefinable\flrow at foot{\newinsert\flrow at foot}"
>
> has been fixed in TL 2016 and even in an updated TL 2015 (great!),
> though `floatrow.sty' hasn't been updated (still 2008/08/02 v0.3b).
>
> Do you know what happened?
>
> Thanks in anticipation.
> --
> Denis
>
>

I did actually get an updated version of floatrow at the time but it never
got to ctan (there were some communication/language issues that complicated
things) but meanwhile we made latex aware that it's running in etex and has
rather more registers available (although not more inserts actually) and
so you are far less likely to get the no room for a new dimen error in
latex releases after 2015/10/01.

(None of this is related to texlive really: it's all macro layer changes
and applies to any tex distribution).

David
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