[OS X TeX] ! No room for a new \count .

[Martin Bergren]

> On 10 Oct 2016, at 17:34, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Oct 10, 2016, at 10:21 AM, Martin Bergren <martin.berggren at cs.umu.se> wrote:
>> 
>> Running Mactex 2016 on the  file 
>> 
>> …
>> ===================================
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>> gives the error message
>> 
>> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.cfg)))
>> (/Users/martinb/Library/texmf/tex/latex/mtpro2/mtpro2.sty
>> ! No room for a new \count .
>> \ch at ck ...\else \errmessage {No room for a new #3}
>>                                                \fi 
>> l.131 \alloc at 0\count\countdef\insc at unt\pointcount@
>> 
>> ? 
>> 
>> I don’t get the error when running Mactex 2015 or when uncommenting %\usepackage{etex}. According to a post in tex.stackexchange, the use of etex should be included in the kernel, so I don’t understand why it’s needed here. 
>> 
>> Note that I use the commercial mtpro2 package.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Martin Berggren
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> If you comment out the use of the mtpro2 package it compiles fine.

Correct. 

> 
> I don't understand why you are using xelatex rather than pdflatex since you don't really use system fonts. If I compile using pdflatex (with the mtpro2 package but commenting out the fontspec line) all is fine again.
> 

I use xelatex because in the unstripped version, I do use the system fonts. In beamer presentations I use Optima as text font combined with MathTime pro for math.  I have used this combination for quite some time now, but when I switched to Mactex 2016, I suddenly got this problem with the counters. The solution seems to be to invoke etex until, and if, mtpro2 gets fixed.

Cheers, 


Martin Berggren
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