NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/text/tex/13450

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From: [e-mail] (PROF D. Rogers (EAS FAC))
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Tex Capacity Exceeded, Sorry
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Date: 23 Nov 92 21:34:27 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Shane Dawalt) writes:
!From article <[e-mail]!, by [e-mail] (PROF D. Rogers (EAS FAC)):
!! In article <[e-mail]! [e-mail] (Ed Wolfrum) writes:
!! !Greetings,
!! !    I hope somebody can help me. I am laying out my PhD thesis, which
!! !consists of six papers, an intro, and a conclusion. When I put the whole
!! !mess together, I get a "Tex capacity Exceeded" error, which turns out to
!! !be the "pool size". With only 4 of the six papers included, I have (from the
!! !master.log file:
!!
!! Why would you want to TeX and print the whole thing as a single file.
!!
!! There are always logical breaks in any document. Break the single
!! file at these logical points and TeX and print in pieces.
!
!  How do you keep the page numbers straight between pieces?
!For example, what if the third document changes and a page is
!added or deleted.  Although I didn't have the pool size problem, I
!printed my thesis in one large job rather than 5 separate jobs as it
!should have been done.  I couldn't come up with a way to
!automatically determine starting page counts of each section.  (I
!can do it manually, but automatic page counts would have been
!much better.)

You wait until you do it the final time. Do the first piece,
read the last page number from the log file, change the
pageno command on the second piece, do that one etc.

Why do something like this automatically when it is simple and
quick to do it manually. Who cares what the page numbers are
until the final printing!

Dave Rogers