On 12-2-2011 11:27, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

I forced \stoptext around line 5688 since it consumes all the available memory (approximately 3 GB) and then takes forever to proceed any further. You can try to remove those 10 lines and try to compile the whole document in case it succeds.

all these bytes go into the tex parser and get tokenized (which takes mem) and then stringified again when passed to mp etc etc how about using a temp file for > 5K data .. i can provide a function for reading that in directly i'll play a bit more with it later Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------