[comp.text] Pool Sizes in TeX

anita@hpausla.aso.hp.com (Anita Giddings) (01/17/90)

Hi,

I received a TeX error message when TeXing a document that I do not
understand, and I wondered if anyone knows what the problem is, and
how to fix it.  The error message is as follows:

   ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool_size=40000].

This is followed by a number of irrelevant lines of messages related
to the point of the document where the above error occurred.  

I have looked in the TeX book for a solution to my problem, but
nothing there gave me any clues.

I have been TeXing a large document which inputs quite a number of
files from a number of directories.  The document is about 670 pages
long, and there are probably between 100 and 200 files that are input
with \input commands.  Some input files contain nested input
files.

I have tried TeXing the document after removing a number of \input
commands from the control file.  When I do this, the error still
occurs, but at a later stage in the document.

I suspect that TeX can only handle a limited number of "somethings",
but I don't know what these "somethings" are.

Help!!

Thanks in advance,

                   Anita Giddings

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