Changing metapost capacities
Reinhard Kotucha <[email protected]>
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>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Russel <[email protected]> writes: > I am trying to process a metapost file consisting of a fairly > large number of rectangles (defined using "draw (x,y)--..--(xp, > yp)--cycle"). I get the error: > MetaPost capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=300]. > I tried changing /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf to increase > all of the capacities and then running "texconfig init" which I You can't increase metapost's input stack size without recompiling metapost. Usually, a value of 300 should be sufficient. Maybe there is something wrong with the definition of your rectangle macro. It's best to write a minimal .mp file that shows this error and ask on the NTG-Metapost mailing list <[email protected]>. Look at http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/metapost Regards, Reinhard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-4592165 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:[email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------