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Tsirkin" To: Alex =?iso-8859-1?Q?Benn=E9e?= Cc: virtio-comment@lists.linux.dev, Cornelia Huck , Bill Mills Subject: Re: Use of LaTeX for the specification Message-ID: <20250930081514-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <87ms6dl3sh.fsf@draig.linaro.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: virtio-comment@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87ms6dl3sh.fsf@draig.linaro.org> X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-MFC-PROC-ID: o5STUHhr1uXEmTde3YyrQPxo_bfR0B-U7Vj-EMSVq9c_1759234622 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 03:41:18PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently updated my distro to Trixie and found that HTML generation is > broken. As far as I can tell this comes down to the use of \cline as > shown in this minimal example: > > \documentclass{article} > \usepackage{hhline} > \begin{document} > \begin{tabular}{ |l||l|l| } > \hline > Bits & Device Specific & Purpose \\ > \cline{1-2} > Read / Write & Device Specific & \\ > \cline{1-2} > Purpose & Device Specific & \\ > \hline > \end{tabular} > \end{document} > > which results in TeX ending early: > > ! Undefined control sequence. > \f:HBorder ...border-top:1px solid \#\hline:color > ;"> > l.8 R > ead / Write & Device Specific & \\ > ? > ! Emergency stop. > > I'm liaising with Debian and the TexLive authors to try and figure out > whats going on. However it does raise a bigger question for the > specification - why do we use LaTeX? Frankly because there's a template someone else wrote that makes the output fit OASIS required format. > I don't doubt that is a powerful typesetting system but its arcane > syntax is a bit of a barrier to entry especially for casual > contributors. With the recent breakage I wonder if I'm the canary in the > coal mine and this will potentially be a problem for everyone else once > their TeX setups upgrade. > > I'd like to augment the repo with some GitHub actions so we can keep an > upto date rendered draft available as well as some lint checks so we can > avoid introducing dodgy markup. But firstly I want to ask is LaTeX the > right source format for the spec going forward? Is this something > mandated by OASIS or just an accident of history? OASIS does not mandate a specific format, but it does mandate specific *formatting*. > Thanks, > > -- > Alex Bennée > Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro