Re: TeX capacity difficulty

The offending \def might help.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Bennett [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 8:58 PM
> To: miktex-users
> Subject: [MiKTeX] TeX capacity difficulty
> 
> Good afternoon all from Greg Bennett
> running MiKTeX 2.9 Version 3.1415926-2.3.1.40.12 (preloaded format = latex
> 2011.6.26) inside WinEdt6 (Build: 20110315 (v.6.0) under Windows7 Pro,
64bit
> 
> I post to this newsgroup since it is MiKTeX which is my TeX engine.
> Apologies if I should have
> posted to, eg., comp.text.tex straight away.
> 
> I have been tidying up the files from which a large book is compiled under
> amsbook. The entire project does compile.
> 
> In the directory BOOK, there is a book-things.tex file which holds
definitions
> in the form of \newcommand instructions.
> 
> Several of the BOOK/CHn directories have their own CHn-things.tex files,
as
> is the way with a project with two authors, and with material some of
which
> is quite specialised.
> 
> Some of these CHn-things.tex files have a mixture of \newcommand  and
> \def forms.
> 
> I began by copying all the definitions from CHn-things.tex ->
book-things.tex,
> excluding the loading of the CHn-things.tex files, and recompiling the
entire
> project - successfully.
> 
> They I started to convert the \def forms to \newcommand forms, checking
> for complete compilation every now and then, and having always thought of
> \newcommand as a wrapper for \def and relatives.
> 
> Unfortunately, I reached a point at which the conversion of just one
> additional \def and starting the compilation led, part way through,  to
>   TeX capacity exceeded [grouping levels = 255] sorry the difficulty which
we
> all dread.
> 
> I do not know how to proceed, either with what additional information I
> should accumulate, or where I should pursue this matter.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any and all assistance Cheers /Greg Bennett
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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