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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-noroom.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-noroom.html index cf320e54560..a1f154fd3c2 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-noroom.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-noroom.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label noroom</title> </head><body> <h3>No room for a new ‘<em>thing</em>’</h3> -<p>The technology available to Knuth at the time TeX was written is +<p/>The technology available to Knuth at the time TeX was written is said to have been particularly poor at managing dynamic storage; as a result much of the storage used within TeX is allocated as fixed arrays, in the reference implementations. Many of these fixed arrays @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ arrays of “registers” is written into the specification as being 256 the result TeX (see <a href="FAQ-triptrap.html">testing TeX implementations</a>). -<p>If you fill up one of these register arrays, you get a TeX error +<p/>If you fill up one of these register arrays, you get a TeX error message saying <blockquote> <pre> @@ -26,20 +26,20 @@ LaTeX’s <code>\</code><code>newsavebox</code> command), or <code>\</code>< <code>\</code><code>toks</code>, <code>\</code><code>read</code>, <code>\</code><code>write</code> or <code>\</code><code>language</code> (all types of object whose use is “hidden” in LaTeX; the limit on the number of <code>\</code><code>read</code> or <code>\</code><code>write</code> objects is just 16). -<p>There is nothing that can directly be done about this error, as you can’t +<p/>There is nothing that can directly be done about this error, as you can’t extend the number of available registers without extending TeX itself. Of course, <a href="FAQ-etex.html">e-TeX</a> and <a href="FAQ-omegaleph.html">Omega</a> both do this, as does <a href="FAQ-commercial.html">MicroPress Inc’s VTeX</a>. -<p>The commonest way to encounter one of these error messages is to have +<p/>The commonest way to encounter one of these error messages is to have broken macros of some sort, or incorrect usage of macros (an example is discussed in <a href="FAQ-epsf.html">epsf problems</a>). -<p>However, sometimes one just <em>needs</em> more than TeX can offer, +<p/>However, sometimes one just <em>needs</em> more than TeX can offer, and when this happens, you’ve just got to work out a different way of doing things. An example is the -<a href="FAQ-usepictex.html">difficulty of loading PiCTeX with LaTeX</a>. -In cases like PiCTeX, it may be possible to use +<a href="FAQ-usepictex.html">difficulty of loading PicTeX with LaTeX</a>. +In cases like PicTeX, it may be possible to use <a href="FAQ-etex.html">e-TeX</a> (all modern distributions provide it). The LaTeX package <i>etex</i> modifies the register allocation mechanism to make use of e-TeX’s extended register sets (it’s a @@ -47,5 +47,5 @@ derivative of the Plain TeX macro file <i>etex.src</i>, which is used in building the e-TeX Plain format; both files are part of the e-TeX distribution). Unfortunately, e-TeX doesn’t help with <code>\</code><code>read</code> or <code>\</code><code>write</code> objects. -<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=noroom">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=noroom</a> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=noroom">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=noroom</a> </body> |