The installation of jadetex does not increase the standard sizes of certain buffers in TeX which causes jadetex and pdfjadetex to fail, with errormessages like the following: ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [save size=5000]. <to be read again> \relax l.6553 {} 12-\/4\endSeq{}. \endSeq{}\Node% ! ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished! Transcript written on BlenderManual.log. This problem is know, and also decribed on the project homepage of jadetex http://jadetex.sourceforge.net/. According to the jadetex webpage, the default memory settings of tetex are too small, see also http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/mini/DocBook-Install/install.html. This bug prevents users from compiling complex documents with jadetex (e.g. complex docbook documents, that have been converted docbook2tex). Upgrading to the newest tetex (tetex-2.0.2). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Convert a complex docbook file to jadetex (e.g. Blender documentation from www.blender.org) 2. run jadetex or pdfjadetex on the resulting document 3. Actual Results: pdfjadetex fails with error: ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [save size=5000]
Could you propose a solution ? Files/Number changes ? Thanks.
Reading jadetex.sourceforge.net it seems that all you have to do is add 40 lines to the bottom of /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf then regenerate the latex.fmt file, before building jadetex. However I still get the "save size=5000" error. Even if the jadetex install did hack texmf.cnf, it would still have to redo it whenever tetex was upgraded. Can gentoo cope with that? In the short term the patch to texmf.cnf should go into the tetex ebuild rather than jadetex. Bob
Oops - jadetex.org recommended values have save_size=5000, so it is not too surprising that we run out with save size=5000. When I up that to 50000 it goes further (dies with "TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [grouping levels=255]"). It isn't obvious what to change to fix that. At any rate the point remains that tetex should put bigger values in texmf.cnf (as per jadetex.org or bigger). Getting jadetex ebuild to update texmf.cnf will cause the change to be lost whenever tetex is updated. Bob
Sorry, I havent commented back. I had quite a look at this bug when I was investigating jadetex just recently (in relation to sgmltools-lite) but I didnt come up with an effective, update-proof way to modify texmf.cnf. The basic situation is: need to modify texmf.cnf then remake jadetex.fmt/pdfjadetex.fmt This isnt that hard to do, but choosing where (which ebuild/what time) is the critical thing I think. The last option I came up with was, perhaps we could: copy texmf to somewhere in ${D} modify it and remake jadetex/pdfjadetex.fmt install these modified versions and do that all within the jadetex ebuild.
has this bug been resolved?
What I'm thinking now is to move texmf.cnf to /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and make a symink to /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf (so texmf.cnf will be CONFIG_PROTECTED). Also, I suggest we create /etc/texmf/texmf.d, put parts of texmf.cnf into it, and generate texmf.cnf from them just like we create site-gentoo.el from ??-*-gentoo.el for emacs. After that, we can put (for example) 60jadetex.cnf on /etc/texmf/texmf.d and remake jadetex.fmt/pdfjadetex.fmt.
It's not completely resolved but texmf.cnf in tetex-beta is config-protected, so things are better now....
It is now configurable by tetex-3.0 and /etc/texmf/texmf.d/80jadetex.cnf. Sorry for taking so long time to fix it :(
(In reply to comment #8) > It is now configurable by tetex-3.0 and /etc/texmf/texmf.d/80jadetex.cnf. Any suggestions for what to put here? I get the same error merging media-libs/font-config-2.6.0-r2. Clearly the default values are too small. Setting all of the save_sizes to 50000 seems to fix this. I have no idea what this means so, maybe this is far too much. Also, I don't know which of the three needed to be increased. Some expert advice/modification of the defaults would be helpful.
