[plt-scheme] SLaTeX: getting it to work

There aren't supposed to be any of those. :)

But I think a very long line will do it.

Robby

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
> Huh.  You did configure your file system to give Dorai Sitaram
> write-access too, right?  Because every running copy of SLaTeX has a
> bit of Dorai's soul embedded in it. (-:
>
> I am still not sure that SLaTeX is actually processing the file at
> all.  I'm trying to think of some kind of \scheme{...} or
> schemedisplay that one could write that would actually generate a
> run-time error from SLaTeX.   Having just woken up, nothing pops into
> my head (-:.  Anyone?  Note that the error must be from SLaTeX, not
> from the LaTeX (ie, from the code generated by SLaTeX) -- the latter
> is easy.
>
> Shriram
>
> On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Bas Steunebrink <bass at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
>> That's a good point, Shriram; one that I had already run into. But LaTeX had
>> already complained that it couldn't create a "quick.log" in the PLT
>> directory to save the fact that it couldn't find the .Z files. So I tried
>> again with administrator priviliges; this time LaTeX had not trouble
>> creating log files but still SLaTeX generated no .Z files.
>>
>> Bas
>>
>> PS: I just noticed your name shows up in the acknowledgments of at least 4
>> of my Scheme books here (Little/Seasoned/Reasoned Schemer, EOPL), nice! :-)
>>
>>
>>
>> Shriram Krishnamurthi schreef:
>>>
>>> PS: The problem here has nothing to do (afaict) with MikTeX vs other
>>> TeX installations.  When run, the SLaTeX code seems to begin running
>>> and then stop running, but in-between it doesn't seem to be spitting
>>> out the .Z files.  So, later, the LaTeX package appears to load
>>> slatex.sty correctly and looks for the .Z files and doesn't find them,
>>> and blows up.  The absence of the dots, to my mind, is the key, and
>>> that appears to be completely independent of the TeX installation.
>>>
>>> Bas, is it just possible that you somehow don't have write access in
>>> the directory you're trying to write in?  Have you tried it from your
>>> My Documents or some other such place, instead of within the PLT
>>> installation directory?
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Bas Steunebrink <bass at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, same problem:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone successfully used sLaTeX with the Windows MiKTex LaTeX system?
>>>>
>>>> Bas, perhaps it would work correctly using cygwin's LaTeX? (totally
>>>> guessing)
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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