mzp@uicsg.UUCP (04/26/84)
#N:uicsg:19900001:000:987 uicsg!mzp Apr 26 01:08:00 1984 [--] HELP! I am trying to do index entries in troff inside floating keeps (there's a mouthful for you). What I've got is something like this: .(z \!.(x f \!1-1. Figure title \!.)x \ .sp 48 .ce Figure 1-1. Figure title. .)z The -me manual says that the \! should make the index entry page numbers correct (i.e. for the page on which they are printed instead of the page on which the floating keep is encountered). However, whenever I troff a file with these things in them (it doesn't fail on table of contents entries not within keeps, strangely enough), it dies, apparently when it is about to output the figure. I get some wonderful error message like 'temp file space exceeded.' Tells me a lot, eh? When I remove all the lines containing \!, there are no problems. PLEASE, if ANYONE knows what the hell is going on here, PLEASE send me mail (notes take a year to reach us). Thesis deadline is approaching!! Thanks in advance, Mark Papamarcos ihnp4!uiucdcs!uicsg!mzp
chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (04/28/84)
``temp file space exceeded'' means (at least under 4.1BSD) that
NROFF's (TROFF's) internal memory array has filled up. This can
be solved by going to 'long' indexes into the array (yes I know
'int' happens to work on VAXen) and increasing the array size.
Look in tdef.h in /usr/src/cmd/troff. There may be a few other
things you have to change. We increased our internal space to
512Kbytes.
By the way, in certain situations you must use
\\\!<line>
to get the effect of
\!<line>
I think floating keeps with index entries (but not non-floating keeps)
in -me is one such situation.
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