On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Hans Hagen
On 20-3-2012 06:49, Kip Warner wrote:
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 06:46 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
TeX has it’s problem with certain errors, accept it.
It is not a problem with the program raising an error, it was how it went about doing it. It should not have to take down the entire operating system to indicate to the user that there was a non-intuitive syntactical error in typesetting.
tex is a macro language and that has benefits but also drawbacks; as soon as you end up in unwanted expansion things can get nasty; anyhow, I get
Runaway argument? {before=\startlinecorrection ,after= \stoplinecorrection }]{\dodoubleemptyYESone \ETC. ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [token memory size=90996078].
which is not really a crash of my operating system; there is not much I can do about this issue I fear.
Even here Runaway argument? {before=\startlinecorrection ,after=\stoplinecorrection }]{\dodoubleemptyYESone \ETC. ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [token memory size=188689465]. on Linux 32bit kernel (on a 64bit processor) -- is the example on a 64bit kernel ? -- luigi