[PHP-DOC] Re: i hate tex. From: jimw <email protected>
Date: 10/04/01

after jumping back into the fray again (and some more google
searching, leading to
http://www.mail-archive.com/tetex%40informatik.uni-hannover.de/msg01064.html),
i found the fix: editing texk/web2c/tex.ch and changing the line that
looks like this:

 <email protected> ssup_max_strings ==65535

to:

 <email protected> ssup_max_strings ==@"FFFFFFF

this will let you crank the max_strings setting in texmf.cnf to a nice
large value. (otherwise you'll be beating your head against the brick
wall i was at, where you couldn't crank max_strings past some value
around 50000. it needs to be over 100000.)

(there's nothing like default maximums that probably haven't been
changed since the seventies. :)

it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to add this information and the
details about the various sizes that need to be used in texmf.cnf to
the howto documentation.

i'll tackle my openjade problems tomorrow. (but has anyone used
openjade 1.4devel to build the tex version of the manual? you don't
need to build the full pdf to test it, just do a 'make tex'.)

jim