Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

323.0. "Memory Error- Large Chunks choke builder" by STAR::PEZZINI () Tue Apr 24 1990 12:51

  This is a lesson I should have learned in kindergarten:

   Rule #47 -  "Cut your meat in smaller sizes, so you don't choke! "  

 With Sheila Lawner's help, I found the answer to my ONLINE
 build problem: hanging up in the TEX formatting procedure section
 with a memory error:

  %TEX-NOROOM, Exceeded memory capacity:
  -TEX-I-MEMORYSIZE, Main memory size = 131072 words
  %TEX-I-SHOWCONTEXT, '...\assisblanklinevskip \else \endgraf ' 
  %TEX-I-SHOWCONTEXT,                 \penalty \assisinterlinepena...'
  %TEX-I-LINE, Error occurred on or around line number: 352
  %TEX-I-SHOWCONTEXT, ';'
  %TEX-I-SHOWCONTEXT, ' '     .
  %TEX-I-FILENAME, 'WORK7:[PEZZINI.DEVICE]5502APB.TEX;11'   
  -TEX-I-ONPAGE, on page [1932]

 I inserted <online_chunk> tags every 120 lines in the SDML file that hung 
 the TEX formatter to fix this problem.
 
 It seems that the ONLINE TEX formatter needs to see <online_chunk> tags
 when processing a block of text greater than 300 lines without seeing
 any head tags or something.  Like when you are presenting large code
 examples that go on for pages.  These large blocks of text need to be 
 broken up into smaller chunks to reduce memory impact during the TEX
 crunching process--or she will "choke".

 ...Bob