General ⇒ TeX capacity exceeded [save size=80000]

[bstex]

Hi,
my .tex file is pretty big at this time and when I compile it, it says:

! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [save size=80000].
<recently read> \__int_eval_end:
l.51771 \select@language {greek}
...
57i,0n,83p,10496b,80001s stack positions out of 15000i,500n,10000p,200000b,80000s

I tried this and this
(which are pretty much the same:
the first one says to do "sudo fmtutil-sys --all",
the second says to "sudo texhash" after the texmf.cnf edit)

but no luck.
In fact, after changing the texmf.cnf and adding the appropriate line of code (save_size = 200000), I think that nothing happens, because after trying to compile my .tex again, the log error is EXACTLY the same (save size=80000), like it didn't update the "save size" to 200000.
Any help, please?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Such capacity exceeded errors are often caused by errors, not by the size of a document. An example is a recursive definition. I guess we need to see some code, such as the document preamble, and the code around the point where the error occurs.

Stefan

[bstex]

Hi,
my book is full of greek text combined with english text.
I have this code on my preamble:

Code: Select all

\usepackage[Greek,Latin]{ucharclasses}

% Language declaration
\usepackage{xltxtra}

\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{greek}
\setotherlanguages{english}

\setTransitionsForGreek{\selectlanguage{greek}}{\selectlanguage{english}}

% Fonts
\setmainfont[Kerning=On,Mapping=tex-text]{Myriad Pro}

and I think that it is the continuous change of the language between greek/english inside my book that causes the capacity exceeded error.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Frequent changes don't cause such an error. It should be caused by code that you did not show yet.

Are you able to narrow it down and post it here?

Stefan

[bstex]

Well, my book is already separated into 15 files and I use another file (I call it "book.tex") with the preamble and \include command to combine them.
All 15 files have about 9000 lines of code, so it's not so easy for me to narrow it!

BUT I found this:
I put the preamble to each one of the 15 files and they were compiled perfectly.
If I combine all the 9000 lines of code into one file, this "TeX capacity exceeded [save size=80000] error" appears again.

Does this mean that my book.tex has the problem?

Also, I noticed that, despite the error, the pdf file is created perfectly. So, should I ignore the capacity error???