<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Paulo,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">I am not sure, but I believe the input length is capped by the tty internal size limit, not exactly by tex in particular. IIRC 1024 is max in OSX, and perhaps (1024 x 4) in Unix. Just my 2 cents. :)</blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">I see... indeed that looks quite possible. I could not find in osx Terminal app some preference but it makes sense if it is a hard-coded feature.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">@David</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">what terminal are you using? I just entered 2500 characters on a line</span><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">in cygwin xterm with no issues (the resulting line was a little</span><br style="font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">overfull:-)</span></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>This seems indeed to confirm Paulo’s comment.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am using the mac osx Terminal app from high sierra (yes I upgraded finally to the flat smartphone interface and invading SIRI, took me hours to try to silence it).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks both, I feel you found the actual cause of this,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jean-François<br class=""><div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>