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You can control a number of run-time parameters (in particular, array sizes) on the command-line or in a configuration file.
Some of the more interesting paramaters:
Total words of memory available, for TeX, METAFONT, and MetaPost.
Extra space for large TeX data structures: boxes, glue, breakpoints, et al.
Words of font info available for TeX.
See Chapter 10, Run-Time Defaults, for a complete list of the TEXMF run-time parameters.
Here is a typical example of a configuration file:
main_memory=2000000 extra_mem_bot=2000000 font_mem_size=2000000
The name of the configuration file is that of the engine (e.g., miktex-pdftex)
or format (e.g, miktex-pdflatex). You use the --edit-config-file
option of initexmf to edit the configuration file, e.g.:
>initexmf --edit-config-file=pdflatex>