From 4977ff0cf52b573bcbe9b20dba74a1a78a8e9966 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fred Drake Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 23:56:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add a note about memory consumption and LaTeX closes SF bug #721157 --- Doc/README | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/README b/Doc/README index a69e5c2d9a9..6b6a2862152 100644 --- a/Doc/README +++ b/Doc/README @@ -143,6 +143,23 @@ To create HTML files: . +LaTeX (or pdfLaTeX) ran out of memory; how can I fix it? +-------------------------------------------------------- + +This is known to be a problem at least on Mac OS X, but it has been +observed on other systems in the past. + +On some systems, the default sizes of some of the memory pools +allocated by TeX needs to be changed; this is a configuration setting +for installations based on web2c (most if not all installations). +This is usually set in a file named texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf (where the +top-level texmf/ directory is part of the TeX installation). If you +get a "buffer overflow" warning from LaTeX, open that configuration +file and look for the "main_memory.pdflatex" setting. If there is not +one, you can add a line with the setting. The value 1500000 seems to +be sufficient for formatting the Python documetantion. + + What if Times fonts are not available? --------------------------------------