Good afternoon, So far so good for the document sizes we are currently using.
:) Many many thanks! FYI: Did a test on a merged "super-document", and it died while writing the idx file out. wc -w 000000207.utex 1666714 000000207.utex Interested in the file? On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Paul Isambert <[email protected]>wrote: > Le 10/02/2011 15:58, Michael Joyner a écrit : > > > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Paul Isambert <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Le 10/02/2011 04:39, Ross Moore a écrit : >> >> Hi Michael, and Heiko, >>> >>> On 10/02/2011, at 1:49 PM, Michael Joyner wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Ross Moore<[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> See how large you can set the "save size" parameter. >>>> Multiply by 10, or 100, or 1000... . >>>> >>>> I'd say you are exploring to the boundaries of what XeTeX >>>> is capable of doing. >>>> >>>> >>>> save size won't go over 80,000 :( >>>> >>> OK. >>> >>> But we don't need it now. >>> Here's the cause of the problem. >>> >>> The package source xesearch.sty has a technical problem. >>> The macros \xs@String and \xs@Stack are used as variables, >>> repeatedly changing their expansions. However, sometimes the code >>> uses \edef\xs@String{...} but mostly it uses \xdef\xs@String{...}. >>> >>> This mixture of local/global scope is what causes the loss of >>> string space, because an \edef instance requires the previous \xdef >>> instance to be retained, not discarded. Then comes another \xdef >>> which may release the previous \edef's memory, but not that of the >>> \xdef prior to the \edef . Hence memory usage grows. >>> >>> By making all instances become global, I now get your document to >>> finish, along with the Index page. >>> >>> Here's the memory usage: >>> >>> Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: >>>>>> 26092 strings out of 494542 >>>>>> 451878 string characters out of 3157455 >>>>>> 480737 words of memory out of 3000000 >>>>>> 29083 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+200000 >>>>>> 8574 words of font info for 51 fonts, out of 3000000 for 9000 >>>>>> 669 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191 >>>>>> 40i,7n,43p,1687b,9339s stack positions out of >>>>>> 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,50000s >>>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>> Here's the patch needed to modify xesearch.sty . >>> >>> >>> > Does this look right? > > > This looks ok to me, except: > > @@ -975,7 +975,7 @@ > - \def\xs@String{#2}% > + \gdef\xs@String{#2}% > > > @@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ > - \def\xs@Stack{#2}% > + \gdef\xs@Stack{#2}% > > > (I've turned \xdef into \gdef). Now, if your document works properly, I'll > release the patch. > Thanks again, > Paul > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > >
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