From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#23611: generating pdf manuals fails with TeX capacity exceeded Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 14:48:43 -0400 Message-ID: <65eg8q3rec.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <5f622904-aaff-fb27-d342-70ec6189ad3f@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464202163 15556 80.91.229.3 (25 May 2016 18:49:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 18:49:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 23611@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 25 20:49:13 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b5drk-0007BD-0d for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 20:49:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34719 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5drj-0003zC-36 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 14:49:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38944) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5drb-0003yl-8D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 14:49:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5dra-0005oi-EE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 14:49:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:54461) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5dra-0005oe-BD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 14:49:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1b5dra-0005r4-7V for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 14:49:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 18:49:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 23611 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 23611-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B23611.146420213622495 (code B ref 23611); Wed, 25 May 2016 18:49:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 23611) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 May 2016 18:48:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38565 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1b5drU-0005ql-1F for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 14:48:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47874) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1b5drR-0005qR-TL for 23611@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 14:48:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5drM-0005l1-5p for 23611@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2016 14:48:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54120) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b5drI-0005js-VX; Wed, 25 May 2016 14:48:44 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1b5drH-0004re-8G; Wed, 25 May 2016 14:48:43 -0400 X-Spook: Albanian Radiation covert video Treasury Social media X-Ran: : (Paul Eggert's message of "Wed, 25 May 2016 10:45:21 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:118674 Archived-At: 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,/