[tex-live] Line endings, TeX & friends, TeX Live 2008/2009

[Martin Schröder]

2009/9/26 Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>:
>    BTW Is it possible to increase the line length limit for *.log
>    files, or remove limit completely and leave it on viewers line wrap
>    option?
>
> Not by default, anyway.  It's important that .log files remain basically
> the same across platforms and over time, so that they can be compared.

Increasing the limits of error_line etc. wouldn't harm that.

> Internally, I don't think it would be all that easy to change only the
> log file, either.  Especially not to eliminate the line length limit.

Being able to set error_line to e.g. 32k would probably be enough for
everybody. :-)

Best
   Martin