GNU bug report logs - #23611
generating pdf manuals fails with TeX capacity exceeded

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 17:39:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.94

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 23611 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23611: generating pdf manuals fails with TeX capacity exceeded
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 14:48:43 -0400

Paul Eggert wrote:

> As I understand it, changes to texinfo.tex are fair game since it's
> just documentation.

Surely it is obvious that such a change is not a "documentation change".
It is a (totally opaque, for me at least) change to the mechanism that
generates documentation, which isn't the same thing at all.

>  At this point, though, it may be wise to stop updating texinfo.tex
> from Gnulib unless the update fixes a known bug in the Emacs
> documentation and does not cause problems like this one.

s/this point.*wise to/During pretesting,/
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