My MWE is below. I can produce the following output in nonstopmode...
... but I see these errors in the log:
! Dimension too large.
\FN@normaloutput ...\tw@ \fi \fi \ifdim \FN@vsize
<\glueshrink \FN@vsize \th...
l.163 \end{table}
I can't work with sizes bigger than about 19 feet.
Continue and I'll use the largest value I can.
! Dimension too large.
\FN@normaloutput ... \@cclv \vbox spread\FN@vsize
{\unvbox \@cclv \boxmaxdep...
l.163 \end{table}
I can't work with sizes bigger than about 19 feet.
Continue and I'll use the largest value I can.
Note: I can trace this to the definition of \FN@normaloutput in bigfoot.sty, but at that point it gets beyond my depth. I'm not sure how the "19 feet" come into it. The MWE is only a small portion of a much bigger document that seems to work fine otherwise.
MWE:
\documentclass[article,a4paper,12pt,twoside]{memoir}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{references.bib}
@book{hjelmslev1961prolegomena,
title={Prolegomena to a Theory of Language},
author={Hjelmslev, L.},
year={1961},
publisher={Univ of Wisconsin Pr}
}
@book{thousand-plateaus,
author = {Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F.},
year = {1987},
title = {A Thousand Plateaus},
publisher = {University of Minnesota Press},
note = {(Trans. Brian Massumi)},
keywords = {philosophy},
}
\end{filecontents}
%% For turning off hypenation globally
% \usepackage[none]{hyphenat}
\usepackage{hyphenat}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{bm}
\usepackage{xfrac}
\usepackage{metalogo}
\usepackage{manfnt}
\usepackage{placeins}
\usepackage[hyperref=true,
url=false,
style=nature,%home
articletitle=true,
sorting=nyt,
autocite=superscript,
isbn=false,
backref=true,
firstinits=true, % enforce this so I don't have to mangle by .bib file
maxcitenames=3,
maxbibnames=100,
backend=biber]{biblatex}
\DeclareFieldFormat
[article,inbook,incollection,inproceedings,patent,thesis,unpublished]
{title}{#1}
\let\cite\autocite
\let\parencite\autocite
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
%% See http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/50219/biblatex-footcite-and-footnote
%% for a way to combine these into one smart command
%% Is there a way to get the parenthetical stuff to show up, like with natbib?
\usepackage[perpage,symbol*]{footmisc}
\usepackage{fancyvrb}
%% Use ``ex'' to make the spacing depend on current font, cool!
\DefineFNsymbols*{safestar}{{$*$}{\textdagger}{\textdaggerdbl}{\textsection}{\textparagraph}{\textbardbl}{$*$\hspace{-.3ex}$*$}{\textdagger\textdagger}{\textdaggerdbl\textdaggerdbl}{\textsection\textsection}{\textparagraph\textparagraph}{\textbardbl\textbardbl}}%
\setfnsymbol{safestar}
%% before-footnote-space applies if there is no following punctuation%home
\usepackage[after-comma-space=-.05em,after-dot-space=-.05em,before-footnote-space=.02em]{fnpct}
%% This works but creates double spacing
\usepackage{bigfoot}
\DeclareNewFootnote{B}[fnsymbol]
\DeclareNewFootnote[para]{R}[roman]
\MakePerPage{footnoteB}
\MakePerPage{footnoteR}
\let\footnote\footnoteB
\usepackage{fnbreak}
\newcommand{\mycite}[2][]{\autocite{#2}\footnoteR{(#1)}}
%\newcommand{\mycite}[2][]{\autocite{#2} $\ullcorner$#1$\ulrcorner$}
\newcommand{\mycitespecial}[2][]{\autocite{#2}(#1)}
%home
\AdaptNoteOpt\cite\multautocite%home
\AdaptNoteOpt\mycite\myautocite
\usepackage{rotating}
\setlrmarginsandblock{40mm}{20mm}{*}
\setulmarginsandblock{60mm}{60mm}{*}
\setmarginnotes{14pt}{51pt}{\onelineskip}
\sideparmargin{outer}
\marginparmargin{inner}
\setheadfoot{2\onelineskip}{2\onelineskip}
\setheaderspaces{*}{5mm}{*}
\chapterstyle{plain}
%%%
\checkandfixthelayout
\setsecindent{1cm}
%\let\footruleskip\relax % for compatibility of memoir and fancyhdr
\let\proportional\ttfamily % for compatibility of memoir and blindtext
\let\sc\scshape
\let\bf\bfseries
\let\it\itfamily
\let\tt\ttfamily
\let\sl\slshape
\let\sf\sffamily
\PassOptionsToPackage{hyphens}{url}
%% frenchlinks here will make all the links show up in small caps font
\usepackage[frenchlinks, pdfborderstyle={/S/U/W .5},citebordercolor={1 1 1},linkbordercolor={1 1 1},urlbordercolor={1 1 1}]{hyperref}
\bibliography{references.bib}
\begin{document}
The basic division into \emph{process} and \emph{system} described in
Chapter
\ref{literature-review}\mycite[pp. 29--30]{hjelmslev1961prolegomena}.
This division was later adapted and popularized by Gilles Deleuze and
F\'elix Guattari\mycite[Chapter 3]{thousand-plateaus}.
\subsection{The mathematical semiotic}
\begin{table}[h]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{rp{.4\textwidth}p{.4\textwidth}}
\multicolumn{1}{r}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{{\bf form}} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{{\bf substance}} \\
\noalign{\smallskip}
\begin{rotate}{90}
{\bf \hspace{-25mm} content}
\end{rotate}
& {\small \textbf{I.}
Vocabulary use, relative to a static word list (\emph{``defined
terms''}) or graph (\emph{``the encyclopedia''}); relative to time (\emph{which
words follow one another in sequence}); and indeed even language
creation over time, relative to a given community}
& {\small \textbf{III.} Mathematical discourse, proof, and exposition (\emph{mathematical semantics}) } \\
\quad & \quad \\
\noalign{\smallskip} \noalign{\smallskip}
\begin{rotate}{90}
{\bf \hspace{-20mm} expression}
\end{rotate} & \small \textbf{II.} Behavior (\emph{such as it is modeled and incentivized within our system's architecture}), including relational behavior, as well as periods of non-observed behavior &
{\small \textbf{IV.} Growth and change of the system itself
(\emph{considered as a ``grammar of behavior''})}
\\ \noalign{\smallskip}
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\caption{An Hjemslevian division of observables \label{hjemslevian}}
\end{table}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode example.tex– Joe Corneli May 26 '13 at 17:44\noalign, etc. Further, go commenting structures and packages, to see if you detect where are you getting the error. – cacamailg May 26 '13 at 18:05comp.text.texhelps: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/comp.text.tex/bigfoot/comp.text.tex/O1wKdgxofVs/YYGw6m82KCIJ There David Kastrup mentions a development version ofbigfootbut the current TeXLive version is the same as the one in TL 2010 (the version mentioned in the thread.) – Alan Munn May 26 '13 at 18:16bigfootgets confused by the pending float, just as the poster of the question incomp.text.texmentions. – egreg May 26 '13 at 19:22bigfootpackage has been updated (version 2.0 of 2014/10/23); a test on your MWE seems to show that the bug has been fixed. – egreg Nov 03 '14 at 21:22