Re: [Bug-gnu-music] ~50 mm file causes TeX to run out of memory.

[Mats Bengtsson]

I encountered the same problem some time ago,
the solution is to increase the main_memory 
of TeX. Assuming that you use teTeX, you can 
change this in the file pointed at by
'kpsewhich texmf.cnf'.

By the way, when I tried your example with Lilypond 1.3.87,
TeX used only 250899 words of memory.

I don't think it's the total size of the score that's the
problem, rather that you have such a large number of beams,
slurs, tuplet brackets on a single page (they are drawn 
using embedded Postscript code, which TeX has to remember
until the full page is output).

   /Mats


> Here's the error msg:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> (/usr/local/share/lilypond/tex/lily-ps-defs.tex) [footer empty]
> (/usr/local/share/lilypond/tex/fetdefs.tex))
> Runaway argument?
> {19.2567501932463 -13.003
> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=263001].
> <argument> ...mbeddedps {19.2567501932463 -13.0038
>                                                   372122888 
> 90.3164726669428...
> l.15221    }
>             %
> No pages of output.
> ----------------------------------------------------