Bug#397676: [debiandoc-sgml-pkgs] Bug#397676: Bug#397571: debian-reference: FTBFS: ERROR: reference.zh-tw.pdf could not be generated properly

[Frank Küster]

Hi Danai, hi Jens,

Jens Seidel <jensseidel at users.sf.net> wrote:

> I can build it well in my etch system but pbuilder still has issues with
> zh-tw:
> debiandoc2latexpdf: ERROR: reference.zh-tw.pdf could not be generated properly
> debiandoc2latexpdf: rerun with the -v option to found out why
> debiandoc2latexpdf: or check the log file reference.zh-tw.log
> make[1]: *** [reference.zh-tw.pdf] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [reference.zh-tw.pdf] Error 1

So, I have proceeded a bit, but there's still problems.  I use
debian-reference_1.09-4, and the following texlive packages (plus there
Depends:) installed:

texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended

(that makes 

ii  texlive-base              2005.dfsg.2-4  TeX Live: Essential programs and files
ii  texlive-base-bin          2005.dfsg.2-5  TeX Live: Essential binaries
ii  texlive-common            2005.dfsg.2-4  TeX Live: Base component
ii  texlive-doc-base          2005.dfsg.2-1  TeX Live: Base documentation
ii  texlive-fonts-recommended 2005.dfsg.2-4  TeX Live: Recommended fonts
ii  texlive-latex-base        2005.dfsg.2-4  TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages
ii  texlive-latex-extra       2005.dfsg.2-3  TeX Live: LaTeX supplementary packages
ii  texlive-latex-recommended 2005.dfsg.2-4  TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packages
ii  texlive-pdfetex           2005.dfsg.2-5  TeX Live: pdfTeX
ii  texlive-pictures          2005.dfsg.2-4  TeX Live: Drawing and graphing packages

).

Now I get 

[12
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [max level recursion of virtual fonts=10].
<to be read again> 
                   \endgroup \set at typeset@protect 
l.666 

The other error I reported in the mail to Danai was probably because an
unfinished aux file was still around, just forget about it.


Indeed, pdftex.ch has

@ The |do_vf_packet| procedure is called in order to interpret the
character packet for a virtual character. Such a packet may contain the
instruction to typeset a character from the same or an other virtual
font; in such cases |do_vf_packet| calls itself recursively. The
recursion level, i.e., the number of times this has happened, is kept
in the global variable |vf_cur_s| and should not exceed |vf_max_recursion|.

@<Constants...@>=
@!vf_max_recursion=10; {\.{VF} files shouldn't recurse beyond this level}
@!vf_stack_size=100; {\.{DVI} files shouldn't |push| beyond this depth}


But this is the same in teTeX-3.0:  Why does it not happen with
tetex-bin? 

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)