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by user40293
Sun Feb 07, 2021 8:31 pm
Forum: Conversion Tools
Topic: Pdflatex "No room for a new \string" In directories with lots of files
Replies: 5
Views: 16411

Pdflatex "No room for a new \string" In directories with lots of files

Just a quick update to this post. I resolved one other issue with package import and exporting to pdf.

All of my draft files follow a convention whereby they are named incrementally (i.e. first draft is 1.tex, second draft is 2.tex and so on). I have a number of import files all with these ##.tex ...
by user40293
Tue Jan 12, 2021 8:15 am
Forum: Conversion Tools
Topic: Pdflatex "No room for a new \string" In directories with lots of files
Replies: 5
Views: 16411

Pdflatex "No room for a new \string" In directories with lots of files

I was able to track it down. It appears one of my imported articles had a bibliography in it, and when it imported, it was causing a recursive loop, I guess. By commenting out the bibliography tags, I was able to get what I have of the docs to import. That at least explains one of the errors.

So ...
by user40293
Tue Jan 12, 2021 6:40 am
Forum: Conversion Tools
Topic: Pdflatex "No room for a new \string" In directories with lots of files
Replies: 5
Views: 16411

Pdflatex "No room for a new \string" In directories with lots of files

No room for a new string is taken from the above log, so it is there, but I think you are correct that the write is the proper error.

Regardless, even after moving to a new directory, I ran into another similar cryptic error. This time it is apparently a well-known capacity Tex exceeded error ...
by user40293
Mon Jan 11, 2021 7:02 am
Forum: Conversion Tools
Topic: Pdflatex "No room for a new \string" In directories with lots of files
Replies: 5
Views: 16411

Pdflatex "No room for a new \string" In directories with lots of files

I'm seeing strange behavior when using pdflatex on a directory with lots of files (80+). I have a simple tex file that imports two other tex files using /import. I was having erratic behavior where sometimes it would generate the pdf, and sometimes it would not. The errors were also not consistent ...