Comments on: TeX capacity exceeded error

By: bill

bill — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:51:07 +0000

I also encountered this error with MiKTeX and TeXnicCenter on Windows 7.
What did the trick for me was to delete the temporary junk files (i.e. all except the .tex and .bib).
Maybe I should also mention, that they were left overs from working on some linux machine…

By: didietok

didietok — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:20:01 +0000

OMG, how stupid am I? i forgot to write {} after \begin{block}

By: Luca

Luca — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:23:03 +0000

Thank you so much Johann, it was the same for me. The problem was a \begin{block} without the required title in Beamer.

By: Dai

Dai — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:13:05 +0000

Should have mentioned that my problems were also encountered with Beamer

By: Dai

Dai — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:12:36 +0000

Thanks to Johan for highlighting what, for me, was the problem: always put a pair of curly braces when starting each block, i.e.

\begin{block}{}

By: isilanes

isilanes — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:06:52 +0000

Thanks for your input, kok!

By: kok

kok — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:23:06 +0000

To add to the list:

I got this error because I changed the spacing between items

\let\origitemize\itemize
\def\itemize{\origitemize\itemsep-0.5\baselineskip}

As this is a common tip to change the line space within an item environment, others might encounter the same problem.

By: isilanes

isilanes — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:34:03 +0000

Thank you all for your comments. Apparently this error can be triggered in many ways. But the bottom line in most/all cases is that it is a stupid error from the user side, yet a simple (syntax) test that the LaTeX compiler doesn’t run. It would be great to have a “pre-processor” that read the .tex file looking for obvious errors such as the above, then warn about them, instead of trying to compile and fail.

By: Fernando Rozenblit

Fernando Rozenblit — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:50:02 +0000

For me it was a “\begin{block}” that should be “\begin{block}{}”, using beamer.

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