Re: ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [parameter stack size=6000].

Thomas Esser writes:

>> since yesterday I have a problem with tetex 2.0.2 and the parameter
>> stack size. The error message is produced at the end of
>> pdflatex'ing a latex-beamer presentation with about 30 pages.
>> The log file shows the following:

>> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [parameter stack size=6000].

> This is the sup_param_size limit given in tex.ch. You cannot go beyond
> this limit without recompiling tex. If beamer really that hungry? If
> this is no bug in the macro programming, I think that we should raise
> this limit in the sources.

> Olaf?

It looks like the limit can be raised without much trouble, as long as
we're strictly less than max_halfword+9.  However, I'd still expect
there is some error in the tex source.

> Thomas

> PS: see my above paragraph: each line (accidently) starts with "this";
>   lines have been wrapped by "fmt". I wonder whether any program in the
>   world would try to avoid such things when breaking lines... :-)

It is a specific instance of the general problem of avoiding "rivers".

-- 
Olaf Weber

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