Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Ricard Roca wrote:
I think that's not possible because of TeX. TeX limits any dimension to 2^30 scaled points (~5.75 m).
I just realized you can cheat just a little:
\hsize=575cm \advance \hsize \hsize
interesting indeed because normally tex checks for overflows when calculating
\message{\the\hsize} % reports 32720.66928pt ~ 11.5m
A nice one for Pavel's new 'TeX surprises' in eurobachotex next year.
actually, one can put stuff in a vbox till tex's mem overflows, and even split off pieces, as long as one does not calculate using the dimensions of a box; tex's overflow check only happens when doing explicit calculations Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------