Re: [MiKTeX] number of registers in eTeX -- problem solved!

[Hans F. N. <ha...@mi...>]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Cornelius C. Noack wrote:

> It seems that MiKTeX/eTeX does indeed provide a space of
> 2^15 for each register; but in eLaTeX
>     * you must load the package etex.sty explicitly
>       ( by a \usepackage{etex} ), and
>     * etex.sty has to be in the \texmf\tex tree.
>
> I had naively assumed that the MiKTeX elatex package, once
> properly installed, takes care of both automatically; but that
> does not seem the case: the MiKTeX installation procedure
> installed the files in a new folder \texmf\etex (why ??) .

Because that is the correct location. Something is definitely wrong with
your elatex because if I run elatex on a document using etex.sty the file
is found (in texmf\etex\...). As I said earlier - it seems your elatex is
really latex. (Did you make it manually?) Please test:

C:\>elatex x
This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.1 (MiKTeX 2.3)
entering extended mode
...

Notice "entering extended mode". What do you get?

I once more ask you to open MiKTeX Option, select the Formats tab and then
edit elatex. What are the values in the fields? Is the compiler set to
"e-TeX (extended mode)"? (The preloaded formats field should be empty.)
Rebuild your elatex format. If you still don't enter extended mode one the
x-test try "initexmf --mklinks --verbose" to see if elatex is linking to
etex...

> Once this was corrected, everything runs smoothly.

It's not a correction, but a (wrong) work-around :-)

> Thanks, Hans and Olivier, for the help on this.

Sorry for helping/bothering you even more...

Hans