[PyX-devel] [ pyx-Bugs-817717 ] TeX error with PyX-0.4.1

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Bugs item #817717, was opened at 2003-10-04 16:17
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: TeX error with PyX-0.4.1

Initial Comment:
I run Python 2.1.3, TeX (Web2C 7.3.7) 3.14159 and

kpathsea version 3.3.7 under Debian GNU/Linux 3.0.



If i run any of the examples which output some text I get 

the following error message:sieck@acertm:~$ python

/usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/PyX/examples/hello.py 

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File

"/usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/PyX/examples/hello.py",

line 4, in ?

    c.text(0, 0, "Hello, world!")

  File "/home/sieck/packages/PyX-0.4.1/pyx/canvas.py",

line 767, in text

  File "/home/sieck/packages/PyX-0.4.1/pyx/text.py",

line 2283, in text

  File "/home/sieck/packages/PyX-0.4.1/pyx/text.py",

line 2271, in _text

  File "/home/sieck/packages/PyX-0.4.1/pyx/text.py",

line 1950, in execute

  File "/home/sieck/packages/PyX-0.4.1/pyx/text.py",

line 2070, in execute

pyx.text.TexResultError: TeX didn't respond as expected

within the timeout period 

(5 seconds).

The expression passed to TeX was:

  \scrollmode

  \raiseerror%

  \def\PyX{P\kern-.3em\lower.5ex\hbox{Y}\kern-.18em X}%

  \gdef\PyXHAlign{0}%

  \newbox\PyXBox%

  \newbox\PyXBoxHAligned%

  \newdimen\PyXDimenHAlignLT%

  \newdimen\PyXDimenHAlignRT%

  \newbox\PyXBoxVAlign%

  \newdimen\PyXDimenVAlign%

  \newbox\PyXBoxVBox%

  \newdimen\PyXDimenVBox%

  \long\def\ProcessPyXBox#1#2{%

  \setbox\PyXBox=\hbox{{#1}}%

  \PyXDimenHAlignLT=\PyXHAlign\wd\PyXBox%

  \PyXDimenHAlignRT=\wd\PyXBox%

  \advance\PyXDimenHAlignRT by -\PyXDimenHAlignLT%

  \gdef\PyXHAlign{0}%

 

\immediate\write16{PyXBox:page=#2,lt=\the\PyXDimenHAlignLT,rt=\the\PyXDimenHAlig

nRT,ht=\the\ht\PyXBox,dp=\the\dp\PyXBox:}%

 

\setbox\PyXBoxHAligned=\hbox{\kern-\PyXDimenHAlignLT\box\PyXBox}%

  \ht\PyXBoxHAligned0pt%

 

{\count0=80\count1=121\count2=88\count3=#2\shipout\box\PyXBoxHAligned}}%

 

\def\PyXInput#1{\immediate\write16{PyXInputMarker:executeid=#1:}}%

  \PyXInput{1}%

After parsing the return message from TeX, the

following was left:

  This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.7)

  ! I can't find file `@473.0'.

  <*> @473.0

            

  Please type another input file name: ! I can't find

file `\scrollmode'.

  (cut after 5 lines, increase errordebug for more output)



# end of output



Any ideas?



Alexander Sieck



alexander dot sieck at web dot de





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>Comment By: André Wobst (wobsta)
Date: 2003-10-06 17:46

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I could not yet reproduce your problem. It would be really

nice if you could do some tests in order to better trace

down the problem.



First of all, I'm wondering that you've installed the

examples systemwide (this would not be the case when you run

"python setup.py install" in the pyx directory --- which is

the suggested way to install pyx). The PyX directory in

/usr/lib/pythonx.x/site-packages should not contain

uppercase characters. You can already see some strange

behavior that pyx in taken not from

/usr/lib/pythonx.x/site-packages/pyx but from somewhere in

your home directory. I expect this to be due to your way of

installing pyx. Could you first of all try to fix this and

the tell me, if the problem remains ...



By the way, I should note that pyx indeed tries to create a

temporary file handed over to TeX. This file has a temporary

name and is removed after TeX should have read it. The file

is created in the local directory (all these things are

build in order to come over some TeX limitations). However,

since the creation of the file should have been done at that

point your problem occures (otherwise you should have got

some exception earlier), you might be able to see that file

(you might need to turn off the atexit call to cleen the

temporary files in text.py). On the other hand, TeX said in

the example above, that it could not read that very file.

Still, very strange ...

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