On Fri, 30 May 2014 18:11:46 +0200
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> On 5/28/2014 6:34 PM, Neal Lester wrote:
> > When I attempt to render a table with more
> > than about 3000 rows I get the following
> > error.  Searching the archives I found one
> > message suggesting that [save size] is hard
> > coded and cannot be increased.
> >
> > The application is rendering business
> > reports; they are relatively simple documents
> > but we definitely need more than 3000 rows.
> > Is there a way to configure context to render
> > tables of this size?
>
> at some point you will hit other limitations
>
> you can jump the number by changing a line in
> the source code but as that is cumbersome I
> changed the beta a bit so that you can add this
> line in the texmfcnf.lua file in the directives
> section:
>
>              ["luatex.savesize"] = "100000",
>
> (i now report the relevant values at the end of
> a context --make run as some need to be saved
> with the format due to startup relationships)
>
> I also set the value to 100K by default.
>
> Hans
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Neal Lester
> >
> > (C:/projects/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-yes.mkiv
> >
> > ConTeXt  ver: 2014.01.03 00:40 MKIV current
> > fmt: 2014.5.28  int: english/english
> >
> > system          > 'cont-new.mkiv' loaded
> > (C:/projects/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv)
> > system          > files > jobname
> > 'temp-AF5678CF-250D-4CB8-8505-21D1DAA5FA47',
> > input
> > './temp-AF5678CF-250D-4CB8-8505-21D1DAA5FA47',
> > result
> > 'temp-AF5678CF-250D-4CB8-8505-21D1DAA5FA47'
> > fonts           > latin modern fonts are not
> > preloaded languages       > language 'en' is
> > active
> > (C:/projects/jinny/report_builder/temp-AF5678CF-250D-4CB8-8505-21D1DAA5FA47.tex{C:/projects/context/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/mkiv-base.map}
> > fonts           > preloading latin modern
> > fonts (second stage) fonts           >
> > typescripts > unknown library
> > 'loc' {C:/projects/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map}{C:/projects/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map}
> > fonts           > 'fallback modern rm 12pt'
> > is loaded structure       > sectioning > part
> > @ level 1 : 1 -> ! TeX capacity exceeded,
> > sorry [save size=50000]
> >
> > system          > tex > error on line 5025 in
> > file
> > C:/projects/jinny/report_builder/temp-AF5678CF-250D-4CB8-8505-21D1DAA5FA47.tex:
> > TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [ ...
> >
> > 5015     \bTR \bTD This is an arbitrary
> > label\eTD \bTD[nc=1,align=flushright]
> > 4,992\eTD \eTR 5016     \bTR \bTD This is an
> > arbitrary label\eTD
> > \bTD[nc=1,align=flushright] 4,993\eTD \eTR
> > 5017     \bTR \bTD This is an arbitrary
> > label\eTD \bTD[nc=1,align=flushright]
> > 4,994\eTD \eTR 5018     \bTR \bTD This is an
> > arbitrary label\eTD
> > \bTD[nc=1,align=flushright] 4,995\eTD \eTR
> > 5019     \bTR \bTD This is an arbitrary
> > label\eTD \bTD[nc=1,align=flushright]
> > 4,996\eTD \eTR 5020     \bTR \bTD This is an
> > arbitrary label\eTD
> > \bTD[nc=1,align=flushright] 4,997\eTD \eTR
> > 5021     \bTR \bTD This is an arbitrary
> > label\eTD \bTD[nc=1,align=flushright]
> > 4,998\eTD \eTR 5022     \bTR \bTD This is an
> > arbitrary label\eTD
> > \bTD[nc=1,align=flushright] 4,999\eTD \eTR
> > 5023     \bTR \bTD This is an arbitrary
> > label\eTD \bTD[nc=1,align=flushright]
> > 5,000\eTD \eTR 5024     \eTABLEbody 5025 >>
> > \eTABLE 5026     \stoptext 5027
> >
> > If you really absolutely need more capacity,
> > you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.
> >
> > !  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF
> > file produced!
> >
> >
> >
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>

This sounds like a job for a programming language
with printing features, and not a DTP program. In
my days as a COBOL programmer printing a report
from a data file with a million entries was not
unusual. As my father used to say there are
horses for courses.

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