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In article <IMG.92Apr7225531@eagle.aisb.ed.ac.uk>, img@aisb.ed.ac.uk 
 (Ian Green) writes:
|> When trying to use PiCTeX I get:
|> 
|> (/home/sin1/img/lib/tex/inputs/prepictex.tex)
|> (/home/sin1/img/lib/tex/inputs/pictex.tex
|> ! No room for a new \dimen .
|> \ch@ck ...\else \errmessage {No room for a new #3}
|>                                                   \fi
|> \alloc@ ...\advance \count 1#1by\@ne \ch@ck #1#4#2
|>                                                   \allocationnumber
=\count ...
|> l.621 \newdimen\!zpt
|>                                       %.AWBX.DVEULGP.YQ.ST
|> ?
|> 
|> 
|> I see from the log file that \!zpt would be \dimen235.   Two
|> questions: (1) I thought that upto \dimen254 was ok,

\newdimen works up from the bottom, but \newinsert (reserving a \count,
\dimen, \skip and \box) works down from the top. LaTeX uses a lot of
\newinsert's, in particular 18 of them for floats.

|>                                                      and (2) how can I
|> avoid this limitation?  (Isn't PiCTeX rather greedy in its use of
|> \dimen's? :-)

Seems like it, certainly. LaTeX in the standard styles uses up to about
\dimen98.

Chris Thompson
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