[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes: > got a 'TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [save size=5000].' error. > Increasing 'save_size' in texmf.cnf solved it. > > FWIW, I increased it to 50000 for the next TeX Live release. I don't recall > exactly why, but maybe because I ran into exactly the same problem with > gnulib.texi :).
Great. I increased save_size locally to just 8000 and that was enough to make the gnulib manual build. > Maybe this should documented somewhere? > > Sure (as far as I'm concerned), please add it to the manual somewhere. The best place I could find was doc/README, is this ok? /Simon diff --git a/doc/README b/doc/README index 551f539..34f21b7 100644 --- a/doc/README +++ b/doc/README @@ -1 +1,13 @@ +Meta-documentation for gnulib documentation +------------------------------------------- + regexprops-generic.texi is generated via a utility in findutils. + +When building the PDF/DVI manual using TeX you may get the following +error message: + + TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [save size=5000]. + +To solve this, you will have to increase the 'save_size' value in your +texmf.cnf, typically in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf. Increasing it to 50000 +is known to work.
