[XeTeX] Stack exceeded in XeTeX

[John Was]

Dear Peter

This is the mystery:  I am *not* including ad2head again.  In this failed 
example I have commented out \input ad2head from the start of the file 
black.tex, so there is no reason for XeTeX to think that it has to \input 
ad2head a second time.  But I agree - it looks as if it is doing just that. 
Not by my instruction though!

I guess I'll just have to live with this for the book, and tell the 
periodical editors that I won't after all be going over to XeTeX for that 
publication - a pity, since there is sometimes Russian to set, which is 
awkward for me in plain TeX.


Best


John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ulrike Fischer" <news2 at nililand.de>
To: <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] JunkEmail: Re: Stack exceeded in XeTeX


> Am Fri, 8 Feb 2008 09:49:52 -0000 schrieb John Was:
>
>> Hello Peter
>>
>> Here is the log (the \input files are actually ad2head.text and 
>> black.text -
>> my originally message
>> converted these names into something more generic).  As I said, there is 
>> no
>> problem if I actually typeset black.tex putting \input ad2head at the 
>> start
>> of that file.
>>
>> This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6) (format=xetex
>> 2007.5.27)  8 FEB 2008 08:56
>> entering extended mode
>>  %&-line parsing enabled.
>> **ad2
>> (./ad2.tex (./ad2head.tex
>> (c:/TeXLive2007/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/pstricks.tex
>> \@unused=\write0
>> )
>
> ....
>
>> (./black.tex (./ad2head.tex
>> (c:/TeXLive2007/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/p
>> stricks.tex)
>
> Why are you including ad2head.tex again? Is it a remain from your tests?
>
>> \plainpagecontents ... \margin \plainpagecontents
>>                                                   \else \vbox to 0pt{\box
>> \m...
>> ...
>> l.12 ...wledge might be attained by~us:\startquote
>
> Looks as if the loop start at line 12 at this \startquote and is somehow
> connected to \plainpagecontents. So it shouldn't be to difficult to make
> a complete minimal example.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Ulrike Fischer
>
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