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Article #10716Re: LaTeX: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=15000].
From: dhosek
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:05
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:05
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In article <1993Jan24.220351.6981@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, cet1@cus.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson) writes: > In article <1993Jan24.103924.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu>, dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu > writes: > |> In article <JOHN.93Jan19160650@sekrit.WPI.EDU>, john@sekrit.WPI.EDU > |> (John Stoffel) writes: > |> > I have a user at our site who it trying to latex his thesis. He kept > |> > running out of space, so I increased the size of TeX and LaTeX by a > |> > fairly large amount, but it's still running out of space. Here is the > |> > tail of the lo file: > |> > ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=15000]. ... > |> There's not enough information in your posting to tell for sure > |> that this is the problem, but every case of the stack size TeX > |> capacity exceeded message I have seen has been because of the > |> above problem. > I am afraid I don't believe it. This seems more likely to cause save > stack overflow than input stack overflow, if it causes any trouble at > all. Whoops, seems I wasn't paying close enough attention to the error... I saw the context of its appearance by the font change and the stack size without bothering to check on its source so I assumed it was the more common problem (in my experience at least). There did appear to be some bogus code near the error but as I indicated the log alone can't diagnose the problem. -dh
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