Hans Hagen wrote:
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Oh, d**mn. I just had a brainwave.
From Web2c's tex.ch comes the following:
@!inf_font_mem_size = 20000; @!sup_font_mem_size = 2000000;
So font_memory cannot be set larger than 2000000 and not smaller than 20000. Out-of-bounds sizes are silently folded back in line, but that happens after the variable expansion is complete. That's why the debug switch still reports the values from texmf.cnf.
So the actual problem here is the web2c runtime code inside TeX.
You can recompile with a larger sup_font_mem_size, I guess. But otherwise you are out of luck.
so, is it possible to increase the upper limit in the code?
I guess so. I don't see any special reason for 2mln upper limit. font mem pointers are integers with rather straightforward usage, AFAIK. (CC to the tex-k list) Cheers, taco