Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:59:06 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m2AEx5UV006634 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:59:05 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m2AEihYB019943 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:44:44 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m29N1LvT016802; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:44:40 +0100 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 15.5) with spool id 215679 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:44:40 +0100 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m2AEidex017939 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:44:39 +0100 Received: from smtp.albany.edu (mail1.its.albany.edu [169.226.1.105]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m2AEiNq3018893 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:44:28 +0100 Received: from hilbert.math.albany.edu (hilbert.math.albany.edu [169.226.140.28]) by smtp.albany.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m2AEiNfE022981 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:44:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from hammond@localhost) by hilbert.math.albany.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m2AEiNOV004057; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:44:23 -0400 (EDT) References: <18385.42387.268037.81145@morse.mittelbach-online.de> <85wsoeto1k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <18385.42387.268037.81145@morse.mittelbach-online.de> <5.1.0.14.0.20080310115827.01e05a70@pop3.web.de> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (usg-unix-v) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on 213.139.130.197 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on 169.226.1.44 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:44:23 -0400 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: William F Hammond Subject: Many labels example (Was: Re: A really, really bad bug) To: LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20080310115827.01e05a70@pop3.web.de> (Uwe =?iso-8859-1?q?L=FCck's?= message of "Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:19:12 +0100") Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-ProteoSys-SPAM-Score: -2.599 () BAYES_00 Return-Path: owner-latex-l@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Mar 2008 14:59:06.0855 (UTC) FILETIME=[49CC4F70:01C882BF] Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 5186 >>5000 labels is easy to reach if you are using the label mechanism >>extensively. > > This is real life with critical editions in the "classical" style > where footnotes don't refer by footnote marks but by line numbers. > ednotes.sty originally used three labels for one footnote > and broke with, say, 400 pages. A LaTeX translation of the largest of the four religious texts (English language) in Jon Bosak's 1998 XML demos might reasonably have at least 24000 labels. See http://www.ibiblio.org/bosak/ http://metalab.unc.edu/bosak/xml/eg/rel200.zip -- Bill