[racket] [Scribble] problem generating PDF

From: Robby Findler (robby at racket-lang.org)
Date: Wed Mar 12 22:24:25 EDT 2014

I think TexLive 2012 is also still available. I find it easy to switch
between distributions too (on a mac). But it is a big download.

Robby


On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Neil Toronto <neil.toronto at gmail.com>wrote:

> You could in principle get the latest version of stabular from CTAN. I
> reported the TexLive incompatibility to the author and he has ostensibly
> fixed it. (I haven't tested it.)
>
> Neil ⊥
>
>
> On 03/12/2014 07:56 PM, Eric Tanter wrote:
>
>> Thanks all, it's effectively a problem with stabular. (TexLive 2013)
>>
>> For now a fix "good enough" was to change \begin{stabular} with
>> \begin{tabular}.
>> Since it's not critical at this point, I'll wait until the workaround
>> Robby mentions ships into the main distrib.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -- Éric
>>
>>
>> On Mar 11, 2014, at 3:36 PM, Jens Axel Søgaard <jensaxel at soegaard.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  FWIW  http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2013-October/
>>> 060153.html
>>>
>>> 2014-03-11 19:28 GMT+01:00 Robby Findler <robby at racket-lang.org>:
>>>
>>>> There is a well-known problem with one of the libraries included in, I
>>>> think, TexLive 2012.
>>>>
>>>> Robby
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Eric Tanter <etanter at dcc.uchile.cl>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I did that and got pdflatex hanging without any clue. But I tried to
>>>>> pdflatex it on another machine, and it works, so that's a problem with
>>>>> my
>>>>> latex distribution.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry about the noise!
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Éric
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 11, 2014, at 11:45 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  Although I think there should be a better way to get more information,
>>>>>> I usually render to Latex and then run pdflatex manually to get more
>>>>>> information.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:15:48 -0300, Eric Tanter wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Today I made an innocuous change to the PrePLAI document I use for
>>>>>>> teaching,
>>>>>>> and, although the html generation is ok, the PDF generation gets
>>>>>>> stuck.
>>>>>>> I tried
>>>>>>> both at the command line and inside DrRacket. Same issue.
>>>>>>> Apparently it's stuck in the pdflatex process, but I can't find any
>>>>>>> log/trace
>>>>>>> to give a more informative report.
>>>>>>> Is there a known bug with PDF generation (I tried both 5.3.6 and
>>>>>>> 6.0)?
>>>>>>> or is
>>>>>>> there a way I can make the process more verbose to be able to give
>>>>>>> more
>>>>>>> useful
>>>>>>> feedback? (I'm well aware that what I describe here is insufficient
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> track
>>>>>>> down the issue)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In case that helps, the document is split in several files, and I can
>>>>>>> render
>>>>>>> the changed file without any issue (and get the PDF of that section
>>>>>>> only). It's
>>>>>>> the whole document rendering that gets stuck (and still consumes CPU,
>>>>>>> as per my
>>>>>>> monitors).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -- Éric
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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