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All, I just installed Miktex 2.2 and got this error message when trying to build Context format. Anyone else get this? What is the workaround? Creating cont-en.efmt... pdfetex.exe --ini --interaction=nonstopmode --halt-on-error --alias cont-en *F:/miktex/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex \dump ! You have to increase POOLSIZE. INITEXMF: pdfetex.exe failed on cont-en.tex I checked miktex.ini and found: ;; Maximum number of characters in strings, including all ;; error messages and help texts, and the names of all fonts and ;; control sequences; must exceed string_vacancies by the total ;; length of TeX's own strings, which is currently about 23000. pool_size=500000 Is this what I should increase? Or is there some other sinister thing that needs taking care of?
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Sunday, October 20, 2002 David Arnold wrote: DA> Creating cont-en.efmt... DA> pdfetex.exe --ini --interaction=nonstopmode --halt-on-error --alias cont-en DA> *F:/miktex/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex \dump DA> ! You have to increase POOLSIZE. DA> INITEXMF: pdfetex.exe failed on cont-en.tex DA> I checked miktex.ini and found: DA> ;; Maximum number of characters in strings, including all DA> ;; error messages and help texts, and the names of all fonts and DA> ;; control sequences; must exceed string_vacancies by the total DA> ;; length of TeX's own strings, which is currently about 23000. DA> pool_size=500000 Two things to do: find the [ConTeXt] section in your local miktex.ini and add pool_size=1000000 (that's a 1 with 6 zeros); also, pdfetex should be called with --alias=context, not --alias cont-en ... how are you generating the format? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
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David Arnold
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