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ljs

Honestly fuck LaTeX at this point.

generating book... ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=5000000].

it's 2024.
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vbabka

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@ljs the book about memory management, which couldn't be typeset due to poor memory management...
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mathieu@fosstodon.org

Mathieu

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@vbabka @ljs oh the irony :D.

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acsawdey@fosstodon.org

Aaron Sawdey, Ph.D.

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@ljs Even when I first encountered it around 1989, TeX's memory management was a big of an 😮 moment.

Also that whole thing from early TeX where you have this hacky program that "undumps" TeX from the binary you compiled and a core dump you forced after everything was initialized ..

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ljs

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@acsawdey yeah and my publisher uses overleaf so I really don't know how I'm going to srt this out...

I am doing a crazy scheme with reference numbering so print readers can follow functions but maybe I have to abandon that or somehow optimise? Probably is the biggest issue tbh
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acsawdey@fosstodon.org

Aaron Sawdey, Ph.D.

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@ljs If your reference number scheme is exploding TeX ... yeah. Maybe a 2-pass scheme external to TeX that reads log file from the first pass and constructs the references? Or maybe there's an extra pair of {} in there somewhere that magically makes TeX use 10x the memory that you could remove 😂

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ljs

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@acsawdey this will break overleaf again. I might just have to abandon it to be honest... sucks really!
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pavel

Pavel Machek

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@vbabka @ljs TeX is not living in this century. It was declared bug-free long time ago, so you must be hitting a feature :-).
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