100 consecutive dead cycles error
alecshaw opened this issue · comments
I get an error when trying to add more than 24 margin notes which are meant to be positioned on the same page: Output loop---100 consecutive dead cycles.
I was able to resolve the issue by calling \newpage so that subsequent margin notes after the limit don't appear on the same page, but not wanting this page break in my document I looked for another solution. \maxdeadcycles=200 has also solved this issue.
Is there a better way to be resolving this, or is this a bug to be looked into?
You might see if \FloatBarrier flushes some of the margin notes. Use it between two paragraphs (as it causes a paragraph break).
I haven't seen this error before. Usually when there are a ton of margin notes per page, I see a Too many unprocessed floats message.
The complaint about too many consecutive dead cycles means that TeX looped over 100 times without outputting a new page.