Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook to pdf via TeX

[Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian dot rahtz at computing-services dot oxford dot ac dot uk>]

Ailbhe Leamy writes:
 > My DocBook document is too big for TeX, so will not convert to pdf
 > using the db2pdf tool.

this is very likely an artefact of your TeX setup

 > not alone in this (in fact, I know I'm not). So has anyone written a
 > howto to solve this problem? 

yes, read the TeX web2c documentation on configuring TeX's memory
constants

 > Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 >  82 strings out of 44975
 >  1257 string characters out of 351357
 >  348000 words of memory out of 348001
 >  12143 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+32500
 >  9795 words of font info for 33 fonts, out of 400000 for 1000
 >  14 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000
 >  19i,1n,39p,287b,115s stack positions out of 1500i,500n,1500p,50000b,5000s

you increase all these limits in `kpsewhich texmf.cnf`, and then
rebuild the format files

this is documented in the jadetex manual as well, if you think I am
being terse.

Sebastian