Re: [PATCH 0/4] editorial: Prepare master branch for 1.4 spec release

On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 10:54:53AM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
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> > From: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
> > Sent: 27 October 2025 11:38 PM
> > 
> > On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 06:04:22PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > From: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
> > > > Sent: 27 October 2025 11:27 PM
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 07:47:52PM +0200, Parav Pandit wrote:
> > > > > Hi All,
> > > > >
> > > > > This short series prepares the specification for release 1.4
> > > > > version from the master branch.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I noticed you updated latexdiff module - intentional?
> > > >
> > > I didn't. :(
> > > Latexdiff is able to generate the necessary diff without my changelog
> > patches.
> > 
> > we have this so it should not be in the diff
> > 
> > \begin{DIFnomarkup}
> > \begin{longtable}{ | p{0.15\textwidth} | p{0.05\textwidth} | p{0.1\textwidth}
> > | p{0.70\textwidth} | } \hline \textbf{Revision} & \textbf{Date} &
> > \textbf{Editor} & \textbf{Changes Made} \\ \hline \endhead %\lbrack Rev
> > number \rbrack & \lbrack Rev Date \rbrack & \lbrack Modified By \rbrack &
> > \lbrack Summary of Changes \rbrack \\ %\hline \input{cl-os.tex} & & \\ \hline
> > \end{longtable} \end{DIFnomarkup}
> >
> Its puzzling. Because when I bisect, after removing the changelog related patches, makediffpdf.sh progresses fine.
> 
> The error likely seems be the 'overfull' part below.
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> Overfull \hbox (1.18391pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 25449--25450 \TU/lmss/m/n/10 MUST set the \TU/lmss/m/sl/10 leap_-second_-smearing \TU/lmss/m /n/10 field to VIRTIO_-RTC_-SMEAR_-UNSPECIFIED, VIRTIO_-RTC_-SMEAR_-
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> Couldn't try latest latextdiff yet.


play with the generated diff. it's quite readable.

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> > 
> > 
> > > Below is the version I am using for last sometime.
> > >
> > > latexdiff --version
> > > This is LATEXDIFF 1.3.1a  (Algorithm::Diff 1.15 fast, Perl v5.34.0)
> > >   (c) 2004-2018 F J Tilmann
> > >
> > >
> > > > > note:
> > > > > makediffpdf.sh still have fails and needs resolution. WIP.
> > > > >
> > > > > Parav Pandit (4):
> > > > >   edit: remove old changelog
> > > > >   edit: add changelog for 1.4
> > > > >   edit: Remove annotation of special character
> > > > >   REVISION: update to 1.4
> > > > >
> > > > >  REVISION      |    2 +-
> > > > >  REVISION-DATE |    2 +-
> > > > >  cl-cs05.tex   | 2120 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > > >  cl-os.tex     | 2605 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
> > > > >  4 files changed, 3407 insertions(+), 1322 deletions(-)  create
> > > > > mode
> > > > > 100644 cl-cs05.tex
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > 2.34.1