[tex-live] Possibility to enhance registers

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/9/24 bernhard <bernhard.kleine at gmx.net>:
> Dear friends,
>
> in the final stage of my book I encounter a crazy error:
>
> [213])) [214]
> \openout2 = `Kap8/kap08_Rezeptoren.aux'.
>
> (./Kap8/kap08_Rezeptoren.tex Kapitel 8.
> \openout3 = `DritteDeutscheEdition.mtc'.
> \openout3 = `DritteDeutscheEdition.mtc'.
> ! You can't use `\unpenalty' in vertical mode.
> \mtc at BBR ->\unpenalty
>                       \nopagebreak [4]
> \sv at minitoc@ ...\leavevmode \mtc at zrule \\\mtc at BBR
> \leftmargin \mtcindent \ri...
> \minitoc@ ...ndottedtoclinep \fi \sv at minitoc@ [#1] }
> <to be read again> \bigskip
> l.5 \minitoc\bigskip
>
> Sorry...I usually can't take things from the current page.
> Perhaps you can make the output routine do it.
>
> (./DritteDeutscheEdition.mtc8)
>
> It is not the code in the file which raises this error since I can using
> excludeonly exclude entire chapters and the error appears again. I
> have :
>         {\centering
>         \setcounter{minitocdepth}{2}
>         \minitoc\bigskip
>         }
> at the beginning of any chapter.
>
> To remedy this situation I have in the texlive-directory (here
> at /usr/local/texlive/texlive2011) the file texmf.cnf which has
> drastically enhanced register values for tex-variables, however to no
> avail.
>
> My question is: Where can I increase texmf-registers to have all the 420
> pages of my book compiled without this annoying error which crept in
> earlier this year.
>
> And I donot think this is OT since it deals with configuring tex in
> texlive.
>
No, it has nothing to do with configuration. The reason is that you
try to remove penalty in the vertical mode but the main vertical list
is empty (see The TeXbook for explanation). This is an error in a
definition of some macro.

> Greetings Bernhard



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