Hans Hagen
It seems that the buffer size of pdftex is maximized to 300K while in practice much larger files show up (at least here); for instance xml files can be 1 meg one-liners.
Is it possible to set the max to (say) 10.000.000? (tex.web)
I think that is crazy. It would make much more sense not to require the input buffer to actually contain beginning and end of line at the same time, but rather take it as a buffer into the input line. It may require some web2c support to do this since Pascal is pretty much line-based IIRC, but setting aside 10MB for the input line buffer is just absurd. Actually, setting aside 300k is ridiculous already. We should reduce this to something like 4k or so and change the code to cater with incomplete lines, or this madness will go on with ever bigger sizes and discussions. Perhaps one should bring up this issue on the TeX-implementors list? -- David Kastrup