chase@olympus.Princeton.EDU (Chris Chase) (08/04/90)
I get the following error when using LaTeX within OzTeX: (DRIVER.aux ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [buffer size=500]. The first time that I Latex the file DRIVER.tex everything is fine (that is when the DRIVER.aux file is created.) When I Latex the file again I get the above error when Oztex reads in the DRIVER.aux file. That file is not large. I believe that Oztex must be trying to read the file as one continuous line. The error [buffer size=500] indicates that the number of characters in a line being read from a file has been exceeded, right? I would like help in overcoming this problem if someone could please email a reponse to me. By the way I am using Oztex on an SE/30 with 5 megs and System 6.x. Thanks in advance, Chris Chase chase@ee.princeton.edu
dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) (08/04/90)
This should be in the FAQ list... In article <1633@idunno.Princeton.EDU>, chase@olympus.Princeton.EDU (Chris Chase) writes... >I get the following error when using LaTeX within OzTeX: >(DRIVER.aux >! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [buffer size=500]. >The first time that I Latex the file DRIVER.tex everything is fine (that >is when >the DRIVER.aux file is created.) When I Latex the file again I get the above >error when Oztex reads in the DRIVER.aux file. You have, somewhere in your document, a very long \caption command. LaTeX writes out information for a list of figures and list of tables even if it doesn't need to, and since it writes out an entire caption as a single record... The fix is to replace that caption command with a \caption with a shorter optional argument. If you don't have a list of tables/figures, the following works well: \caption[]{...} Note that you have to delete the .aux file before you can proceed. -dh --- Don Hosek TeX, LaTeX, and Metafont Consulting and dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu production work. Free Estimates. dhosek@ymir.bitnet uunet!jarthur!ymir Phone: 714-625-0147