On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Robin Fairbairns wrote: > [...] > no: registers are things like boxes, counters, lengths and the like. in > knuth's original code, there were a maximum of 256 of each; in e-tex > 65535 are available. it was always easy to run out of registers in > original tex -- pictex was a good candidate for that; it wasn't just > musixtex.
Since I find PICTEX.TEX from 06/11/1989 in my EMTEX distribution, I believe that in this distribution from 1997, the same as Daniel's, the register limit had already been expanded, but Daniel was not aware of this! Jean-Pierre Coulon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.daimi.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music