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I have a file that compiled on Ubuntu 12.04 and now (with Ubuntu 14.04, a fresh install, TeXLive 2013, packages from the Ubuntu repository) not. I purged the file, and I find that without a4wide package it works. It is an error in a4wide or I should reset some variables in the texmf.cnf file?

The error message is:

! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000].

The example.tex is:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{t1enc}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[magyar]{babel}

\usepackage{amsmath}

\usepackage{a4wide}

\begin{document}

\title{This is the title}
\author{This is my name}
\maketitle

\end{document}

I have used pdflatex, but the error is same with latex command as well.

I have not used non-ASCII characters as in this question.

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This answer writes, that a4wide is buggy and outdated, we should use geometry package instead.

I have tried the row was mention there:

\usepackage[a4paper,margin=1cm,footskip=.5cm]{geometry}

and the result is quite the same as I had on my earlier OS.

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  • The top entry on CTAN regarding this packages says This pack­age in­creases the width of the type­set area of an a4 page. This sort of op­er­a­tion is ca­pa­ble of pro­duc­ing ty­po­graph­i­cally poor re­sults; the op­er­a­tion it­self is bet­ter pro­vided by the ge­om­e­try pack­age. ... which fits to your findings ;-) –  Aug 04 '14 at 19:11