[racket] [Scribble] problem generating PDF

From: Jens Axel Søgaard (jensaxel at soegaard.net)
Date: Tue Mar 11 14:36:03 EDT 2014

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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