JadeTeX uses quite a lot of TeX's resources. You may find it necessary to increase the size of some of TeX's resource pools by editing the file %%LOCALBASE%%/share/texmf/web2c-ptex/texmf.cnf with any text editor. For example, to typeset the FreeBSD Handbook with JadeTeX, change the following settings to the listed values: hash_extra = 60000 pool_size = 1000000 max_strings = 70000 save_size = 10000