[OS X TeX] TeX capacity exceeded?

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jul 15, 2014, at 4:47 PM, Walschap, Gerard <gerard at ou.edu> wrote:

> I have a brand new machine running OS 10.9.4 and TeXShop 3.36.2. I tested the installation by typesetting a simple document, and everything seemed to work. When I try to typeset a book I’m writing however, it gets stuck on chapter 2. The strange thing is that I haven’t touched chapter 2 in months. Here’s the relevant (I think) part of the console log:
> 
> ./Chapter2.tex:1184: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=5000000].
> \rlap #1->\hb at xt@ \z@ {#1\hss }
>                                
> l.1184 ... can be found for example in \cite{HS74}
>                                                   . The relation between int...
> 
> ./Chapter2.tex:1184:  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
> Transcript written on diffgeom.log.
> Latexmk: Index file 'diffgeom.idx' was written
> Latexmk: Reference `Ex:detIsom' on page 83 undefined 
> Latexmk: Summary of warnings:
>   Latex failed to resolve 1 reference(s)
> Collected error summary (may duplicate other messages):
>   pdflatex: Command for 'pdflatex' gave return code 256
> Latexmk: Use the -f option to force complete processing,
>  unless error was exceeding maximum runs of latex/pdflatex.
> Latexmk: Errors, so I did not complete making targets
> 
> Any suggestions? Thanks,
> 
> -Gerard

Howdy,

This could be caused by one of several things but I'd first guess an infinite loop of some sort. Without some more information this is very difficult to diagnose. You might try using the etex package (\usepackage{etex}) but i'm not at all sure that will help.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)