From c1ab55793b85c76b7b8099886df530f79fe2f407 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2021 10:29:47 -0600
Subject: Add a faq about the "Cannot allocate memory" error on M1 macs.

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 doc/faqs.md | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

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diff --git a/doc/faqs.md b/doc/faqs.md
index 2f3368837..317153d5f 100644
--- a/doc/faqs.md
+++ b/doc/faqs.md
@@ -124,5 +124,13 @@ topography as TeX, particularly when it comes to math, but they
 may be fine for many purposes.)
 
 
+## Converting to PDF on an M1 Mac, I get a "Cannot allocate memory" error.
+
+We are not sure why this happens, but we have found that
+fully specifying the `pdflatex` path avoids the error. For
+example,
+
+    pandoc -o my.pdf --pdf-engine=/Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex
+
 :::
 
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