[racket] [Scribble] problem generating PDF

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 11 14:29:01 EDT 2014

I forgot that it's probably "stabular.sty".

Assuming so, you could try a snapshot build, because we've implemented
a workaround for Latex installations that have a broken "stabular.sty".

At Tue, 11 Mar 2014 15:24:13 -0300, Eric Tanter 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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