X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["993" "Fri" "7" "January" "1994" "12:07:20" "+0000" "Peter Abbott" "P.Abbott@aston.ac.uk" "<199401071214.AA23704@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de>" "31" "Re: What size TeX?" "^Date:" nil nil "1" "1994010712:07:20" "What size TeX?" (number " " mark " Peter Abbott Jan 7 31/993 " thread-indent "\"Re: What size TeX?\"\n") nil]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA06951; Fri, 7 Jan 94 13:16:53 +0100 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA17485; Fri, 7 Jan 94 13:14:56 +0100 Received: from tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de with SMTP id AA23704 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4(mail.m4[1.12]) for <@MAIL.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE:Schoepf@SC.ZIB-BERLIN.DE>); Fri, 7 Jan 1994 13:14:53 +0100 Message-Id: <199401071214.AA23704@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de> Received: from TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE by tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 0079; Fri, 07 Jan 94 13:15:08 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin MAILER@DHDURZ1) by TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 0078; Fri, 7 Jan 1994 13:15:08 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin LISTSERV@DHDURZ1) by VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 1393; Fri, 7 Jan 1994 13:14:12 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was abbottp@ASTON.AC.UK In-Reply-To: Message from dean.ayres@aea.orgn.uk of 7 Jan 94 9:59:05 GMT Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 12:07:20 +0000 From: Peter Abbott Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: What size TeX? Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1254 You write [7 Jan 94 9:59:05 GMT]: > > > Is there any chance that this will be available in the near future? > I'm currently struggling to find the correct values of the hash parameters > for PasTeX for the Commodore Amiga, and OzTeX on the Mac. I think PasTeX > has the hash size set at compile time, so its not that easy to change. > I need a definitive answer on the sizes before asking the author to make the > necessary changes. > > > The new LaTeX2e distribution seems very powerful, but eats memory and runs > more slowly. The price of progress, I suppose. > > > Dean Ayres Dean I found that latex2e needed a larger hash size in OzTeX and I run with a value of 10,000 (it may run in less), I just choose an arbitary value. I also discovered that the default values for other parameters are too small, I could not load all the fonts I needed. It is slower but changing to documentclass from documentstyle shows a distinct improvement (but can introduce other problems). Peter Peter