[metapost] Metapost capacity exceeded

Nicola nvitacolonna at gmail.com
Tue Jun 1 19:09:03 CEST 2010


In article <4C05302C.5030003 at elvenkind.com>,
 Taco Hoekwater <taco at elvenkind.com> wrote:

> Nicola wrote:
> > 
> > But, regarding the current version, what are, or 
> > where are documented, the numeric limits that are hard-coded? For 
> > example, is it possible to have more than ~16K symbolic tokens defined 
> > (that is the limit that I can reach in my tests)?
> 
> Not all internal limits are documented, in part because some
> are completely fixed, in part because some are fluid, and in
> part because nobody cared enough to find the actual max.
> 
> I think (but will not guarantee) that the current situation
> for hard-code array values 1.2XX is like below:
> [...]

Thanks! Those figures will be very useful to me! "Configurable" 
parameters are those that can be set during format creation? How do you 
do that?

Nicola



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