Re: Modifying the string table size in pdflatex

[bas@medeia.dhs.org (Bas Zoetekouw)]

Douglas Bates wrote in local.debian.devel:
>  ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=68569].
>  <argument> \string \indexentry 
> 				{sys.status@sys.status\textit {(sys.parent)}|...
>  l.23156 \alias{sys.status}{sys.parent}
> 
>  !  ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file not finished!
>  Transcript written on refman.log.
> 
> Is there an easy fix for this?  I would need to document it so that
> others can build the package on different architectures.

Sizes of TeX buffers can be changed in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf. Don't forget to
run texconfig init afterwards!

BTW: this is kind of documented in the teTeX FAQ
(/usr/doc/texmf/tetex/teTeX-FAQ.gz, question 24) 

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