From: roberts@fermi.nsrl.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: VMS MF 2.1a capacity exceeded, how to rebuild?
Date: 28 Dec 92 22:53:41 GMT
Organization: Nuclear Structure Research Laboratory

I have a MetaFont problem trying to generate the small caps font at an
effective size of about 9pt (mag=0.8967) which is being asked for by the
REVTeX macro package.  While MF is clear about the problem, ("capacity
exceeded, sorry [number of strings=598].", see the log below) I'm not
adept enough to know what to poke before rebuilding.  I have all the
sources from DECUS, so if someone could tell me what parameter to
modify, I can easily rebuild the source.  Thanks!

roland
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$ mf modes
This is METAFONT, Version 2.0 [PD VMS 2.1a/DECUS] (preloaded base=plain 90.8.25)
(TEX_ROOT:[FONTS.MF.CM.STANDARD]MODES.MF;1)
*\mode=localfont; mag=0.8967; input cmcsc10
(TEX_ROOT:[FONTS.MF.CM.STANDARD]CMCSC10.MF;1
(TEX_ROOT:[FONTS.MF.CM.STANDARD]CMBASE.MF;1)
(TEX_ROOT:[FONTS.MF.CM.STANDARD]CSC.MF;1
(TEX_ROOT:[FONTS.MF.CM.STANDARD]ROMANU.MF;1 [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] [70]
[71] [72] [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] [82] [83] [84] [85]
[86] [87] [88] [89] [90]) (TEX_ROOT:[FONTS.MF.CM.STANDARD]GREEKU.MF;1 [0]
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10])
(TEX_ROOT:[FONTS.MF.CM.STANDARD]ROMAND.MF;1 [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53]
[54] [55] [56] [57]) (TEX_ROOT:[FONTS.MF.CM.STANDARD]ROMANP.MF;1 [36] [38]
[63] [15]) (TEX_ROOT:[FONTS.MF.CM.STANDARD]ROMSPU.MF;1 [29] [30] [31])
(TEX_ROOT:[FONTS.MF.CM.STANDARD]PUNCT.MF;1 [33] [14] [35] [37] [39] [40]
[41] [42] [43] [44] [46] [47] [58] [59] [61] [64] [91] [93] [96])
(TEX_ROOT:[FONTS.MF.CM.STANDARD]ACCENT.MF;1 [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]
[24] [32] [94] [95] [125] [126] [127])
(TEX_ROOT:[FONTS.MF.CM.STANDARD]ROMSUB.MF;1
! METAFONT capacity exceeded, sorry [number of strings=598].
l.10  backslash=ASCII"\"; underbar
                                  =ASCII"_";
Font metrics written on ?.
Output written on TEX_ROOT:[TEX_SOURCE.MF_SOURCE]MODES.269GF;1 (86 characters,
8040 bytes).
Transcript written on TEX_ROOT:[TEX_SOURCE.MF_SOURCE]MODES.LIS;1.
%PAS-F-FILNOTOPE, file is not open
  File "LOGFILE"  Filename ""
%TRACE-F-TRACEBACK, symbolic stack dump follows
module name     routine name                     line       rel PC    abs PC

                                                           001053C0  001053C0
                                                           00101905  00101905
MF              PRINTLN                           419      0000008F  000AE11F
MF              PRINTNL                           448      00000062  000AE6E2
MF              OVERFLOW                          546      0000004A  000AF94E
MF              MAKESTRING                        625      0000004D  000B06F5
MF              SYMBOLJOBNAM                     6333      0000018C  000FB9E0
MF              MF                               6491      0000077D  000AC6F5