Thanks Thomas, I've still no luck, but I think things are quite a bit clearer now. I "stumbled" across an old fink installation, the existence of which hadn't crossed my mind for quite some time. That is now gone. I have also reinstalled my tex/context set-up via the i-Installer just to clear the air. Here is what I currently see: there are 3 cnf files that may be involved: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/context.cnf Which declares: % This file is mostly the same as the one that ships with % texlive, but adapted for multiple trees as well as % development in a non tds tree (i.e. hh's machine). This % file is meant for context users. % % This file loads before texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf; beware : % the selfish auto parent can get in the way especially when % the binaries are located elsewhere. In case of multiple % trees, one can best set the following ones manually. I believe that Hans said this was just an example file (?), but it has the memory.context settings including: font_max.context = 2000 font_mem_size.context = 1000000 main_memory.context = 2000000 Second, there is: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf Which is referred to in the above context.cnf, and which declares: % original texmf.cnf -- runtime path configuration file for kpathsea. % (If you change or delete `original' on the previous line, the % distribution won't install its version over yours.) % Public domain. [Stuff skipped] % Earlier entries (in the same or another file) override later ones, and % an environment variable foo overrides any texmf.cnf definition of foo. This file also has memory settings, such as: % ConTeXt is a memory hog... main_memory.context = 2000000 % Keep total within 8000000 limit extra_mem_bot.context = 4000000 % Words of font info for TeX (total size of all TFM files, approximately). font_mem_size = 2000000 % Total number of fonts. Must be >= 50 and <= 2000 (without tex.ch changes). font_max = 2000 And finally, /usr/local/teTeX/texmf.cnf Which is identified by kpsewhich texmf.cnf and which has no memory settings. I have tried changing the memory settings in each file (that means adding them to /usr/local/teTeX/texmf.cnf), raising the main_memory to 3000000 and the font_mem_size likewise to 3000000, and then running texexec --make --all. No change in the resulting readout: Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 4681 strings out of 60921 74346 string characters out of 610603 4609149 words of memory out of 7114466 40727 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000 1927616 words of font info for 332 fonts, out of 2000000 for 2000 232 hyphenation exceptions out of 5000 62i,21n,81p,1198b,1755s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,6000p, 200000b,40000s PDF statistics: 170 PDF objects out of 300000 0 named destinations out of 131072 109061 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 128383 At this point I would very much like to be embarrassed by a simple, too-obvious pointer ;) Thanks very much, David On Jan 17, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
1. Don't use texconfig for context, use texexec --make --all
2. If you use texonfig, the command is texconfig-sys, or you'll end up having inconsistent files for different users.
Best
Thomas
On Jan 17, 2006, at 6:35 PM, David Wooten wrote:
Hmm, interesting. I used "texconfig init". No, there seems to be no change if I rename it.
Thanks, David