[OS X TeX] Stack size limit error with hyperref

[Ross Moore]

Hi Richard,


On 24/03/2005, at 3:33 PM, Richard Seguin wrote:

> I'm trying to typeset a 75 page document using the hyperref package, 
> and I'm getting this error message:
>
> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000].

This usually indicates that an infinite loop has developed.
I've seen this before with hyperref, particularly with
special characters (such as '~') used incorrectly within a URL.


I'd guess that you have defined a macro that expands to
something containing a '~' (or perhaps '#' or '&'),
then tried to use this as the URL part of an \href
or similar command.

That cannot work. There are ways around this.



>
> Is the hyperref package a stack hog? Is this normal on a 
> less-than-book-size 75 page document? How can the stack size be 
> increased?
>
> The log file says:
>
> If you really absolutely need more capacity,
> you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.
>
>
> Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
>  5745 strings out of 95321
>  73014 string characters out of 1187504
>  280885 words of memory out of 1707396
>  8415 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000
>  23533 words of font info for 99 fonts, out of 1000000 for 2000
>  14 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000
>  5000i,14n,5024p,2518b,466s stack positions out of 
> 5000i,500n,6000p,200000b,40000s
>  800 PDF objects out of 300000
>  290 named destinations out of 131072
>  1617 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 65536
> !  ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished!
>
> This is the list of packages I'm using:
>
> \documentclass[11pt,psamsfonts,oneside]{article}
> \usepackage{amssymb,amsmath,latexsym,amsthm}
> \usepackage{verbatim}
> \usepackage{eucal}
> \usepackage{mathrsfs}
> \usepackage[all]{xy}
> \usepackage{bm}
> \usepackage{enumerate}
> \usepackage{hyperref}


I need to see more of your LaTeX source to identify the
exact problem.


>
> Richard Séguin
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Hope this helps,

	Ross

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