Re: pdfTex failure

[Graham Percival]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 04:33:34PM +0000, James Lowe wrote:
> Hello
> 
> )After increasing save size to 10000 the doc build completed perfectly, so
> )all is OK at the moment, but as I hacked a file which says "don't hack this"
> )I guess it might revert back again after an update sometime in the future.

BTW, you're "supposed" to edit the file
  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf
and then run
  update-texmf
(as root)

> )What value do you have for save size in etc/texmf/texmf.cnf?
> 
> If it helps, I do use Lily-dev and my cnf file says
> 
> param_size = 10000     % simultaneous macro parameters
> save_size = 50000      % for saving values outside current group
> stack_size = 5000      % simultaneous input sources

I have exactly the same setup (by default; not surprising since
they're both ubuntu 10.4).

Trevor - I think your solution is fine.

Cheers,
- Graham