JadeTeX for Debian ------------------ Sometimes problems occur with the installation of teTeX, and these problems only manifest during the installation of the jadetex package. The JadeTeX package tries to be as flexible as possible in dealing with these problems. However, during certain upgrade paths, cases have been reported where the only way to fix the problem was to actually purge the tetex and jadetex packages, then reinstall them (a clean slate). To use jadetex, you just do: > jade -t tex Which produces `basename `.tex, a.k.a., , and then: > jadetex An excellent paper on Jadetex can be found at . You can create the memory dump files jadetex.fmt and pdfjadetex.fmt by running `fmtutil --cnffile /etc/texmf/jadetex/fmtutil.cnf --all' as root. This is done automatically during the installation process of this package. If running jadetex gives you 'capacity exceeded' messages, please check out /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf. The jadetex maintainer has worked with the teTeX maintainer to ensure that the settings that teTeX ships with generally work with JadeTeX. Yet you may have opted to *not* install the newer versions of texmf.cnf with the expanded, so look at that file and compare it with /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf.dpkg-dist . You should have lines such as these near the bottom: % Settings for Debian jadetex hash_extra.jadetex = 15000 hash_extra.pdfjadetex = 15000 ... If you *do* have the settings for the distributed texmf.cnf files already in place, but are still receiving capacity exceeded messages, the best I can tell you is to note from the error message which setting is too small, and increase it. I'd be curious to be notified if you do have to do this, since other users may also benefit from the expanded sizes. In some cases, it is possible for pdfjadetex to error out even with the expanded settings. You might need to fix that with special 'jadetex.cfg' settings -- see README.jadetex.cfg . -- Adam Di Carlo Marcus Brinkmann , Fri, 10 Jul 1998 04:03:33 +0200 Christian Leutloff , Mon, 23 Feb 1998