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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-manymathalph.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-manymathalph.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..349ad41cd8d --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-manymathalph.html @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label manymathalph</title> +</head><body> +<h3>Too many math alphabets</h3> +<p/>TeX mathematics is one of its most impressive features, yet the +internal structure of the mechanism that produces it is painfully +complicated and (in some senses) pathetically limited. One area of +limitation is that one is only allowed 16 ”maths alphabets” +<p/>LaTeX offers the user quite a lot of flexibility with allocating +maths alphabets, but few people use the flexibility directly. +Nevertheless, there are many packages that provide symbols, or that +manipulate them, which allocate themselves one or more maths alphabet. +<p/>If you can’t afford to drop any of these packages, there’s +still hope if you’re using the <i>bm</i> package to support +<a href="FAQ-boldgreek.html">bold maths</a>: <i>bm</i> is capable +of gobbling alphabets as if there is no tomorrow. The package defines +two limiter commands: <code>\</code><code>bmmax</code> (for <em>bold</em> symbols; default 4) +and <code>\</code><code>hmmax</code> (for <em>heavy</em> symbols, if you have them; +default 3), which control the number of alphabets to be used. +<p/>Any reduction of the <code>\</code><code><em>xx</code>max</em> variables will slow +<i>bm</i> down — but that’s surely better than the document not +running at all. So unless you’re using maths fonts (such as +<i>Mathtime Plus</i>) that feature a heavy symbol weight, suppress all +use of heavy families by +<blockquote> +<pre> + \renewcommand{\hmmax}{0} +</pre> +</blockquote><p> +and then steadily reduce the bold families, starting with +<blockquote> +<pre> + \renewcommand{\bmmax}{3} +</pre> +</blockquote><p> +until (with a bit of luck) the error goes away. +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>bm.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools.zip">macros/latex/required/tools</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools/">browse</a>) +</dl> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=manymathalph">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=manymathalph</a> +</body> |