zwilling@world.std.com (Daniel Zwillinger) (04/29/91)
A friend of mine needs to get a large version of TeX (since he uses PiCTeX, which can sometimes use up a lot of memory) He now uses BigTeX (created by the change/patch file that came with the TeX distribution). Does anyone have a change/patch file that can be used to get a MonsterTeX? (i.e., the next size up, packing values in whole words instead of half words.) Thanks in advance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Daniel Zwillinger email: zwilling@world.std.com 61 Highland Avenue phone: 617/646-8565 Arlington, MA 02174 Home of: Handbook of Differential Equations ----------------------------------------------------------------------
monardo@cshl.org (Pat Monardo) (04/29/91)
In article <1991Apr28.223716.1047@world.std.com> zwilling@world.std.com (Daniel Zwillinger) writes: >A friend of mine needs to get a large version of TeX >(since he uses PiCTeX, which can sometimes use up a lot of memory) >He now uses BigTeX (created by the change/patch file that came >with the TeX distribution). >Does anyone have a change/patch file that can be used to get a >MonsterTeX? (i.e., the next size up, packing values in >whole words instead of half words.) > Common TeX has successfully typeset /usr/dict/words as a 38 page paragraph. It created over 60000 break nodes in the process. It is currently limited to available swap space.