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by Chris Jones XL
Sat Mar 09, 2019 9:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [semantic nest size=500].
Replies: 3
Views: 2752

! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [semantic nest size=500].

The workaround that I found by accident while trying to put together a (non) MWE is good enough where I'm concerned… even though the look of the table is messed up if I don't specify a length in the defininition of the first column of the 'footnote table': it automatically takes the width of the ...
by Chris Jones XL
Sat Mar 09, 2019 3:26 am
Forum: General
Topic: ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [semantic nest size=500].
Replies: 3
Views: 2752

! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [semantic nest size=500].

Compiling a fairly large document with xelatex gives this error message followed by 'no pages of output'.

I have some tabular data in a footnote invoked from a cell in a table in the document's text.

I eventually managed to isolate the problem and am now able to provide a one-page non-working ...