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I use MikTex 2.9 and am compiling a beamer presentation. I have 100+ pages. The file compiles if I comment out about half of the frames. I managed one presentation by compiling the two halves one after the other and combining the two pdfs later. This, however, is a big headache to manage outlines and reference.

The exact message is: 

Tex capacity exceeded. sorry. [input stack size = 5000].

Increasing the stack size to 50000 is to no avail. Can that be due to large number of frames, or since the outline frame cannot hold all the topics. I simply could not have any clue. Any ideas??

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    Welcome to TeX.SX! That error is usually produced by a wrong definition, such as \renewcommand{\foo}{something \foo} trying to redefine a command in terms of itself. – egreg Apr 13 '12 at 10:06
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    @egreg: Using \foo after your redefinition will overflow the main memory. To overflow the input stack it must be the other way round: \renewcommand{\foo}{\foo something} – Ulrike Fischer Apr 13 '12 at 10:24
  • @UlrikeFischer Yes, thank you. The point is that the OP should know that redefining a command in terms of itself can't be done in a naïve way. – egreg Apr 13 '12 at 10:26
  • Thank you so much. I indeed had a stray redefinition of at two places: – agautam Apr 13 '12 at 10:32
  • @agautam Did that resolve the issue, then? If so, we'll probably close this as "too localised" simply to ensure that open questions really are open. – Andrew Stacey Apr 13 '12 at 10:41
  • Closed for now. Feel free to flag it for reopening if the issue is not solved. – Martin Scharrer Apr 13 '12 at 12:50

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