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From: Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...> - 2014-11-07 01:05:23
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I seem to have a problem building the PDF of the doc with RC2. After ./configure make make install I ran: make pdf which resulted in an error msg: ! LaTeX Error: File `picins.sty' not found. which is funny, because I have a pretty complete Latex installation (including texlive-pictures). I was surprised - at least in my memory I was able to create the PDF for RC1 without a problem. Is this a known problem or am I doing something wrong? Best, Ph. |
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From: Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...> - 2014-11-07 01:38:00
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On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 20:16:30 -0500 (EST) Allin Cottrell <cot...@wf...> wrote: > On Thu, 6 Nov 2014, Philipp K. Janert wrote: > > > > > I seem to have a problem building the PDF of > > the doc with RC2. > > > > After > > ./configure > > make > > make install > > > > I ran: > > make pdf > > which resulted in an error msg: > > ! LaTeX Error: File `picins.sty' not found. > > which is funny, because I have a pretty complete > > Latex installation (including texlive-pictures). > > > > I was surprised - at least in my memory I was able > > to create the PDF for RC1 without a problem. > > > > Is this a known problem or am I doing something wrong? > > This seems relevant: > http://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/patches/432/ Thanks for pointing this out. I don't understand Ethan's comment to this patch: I have never needed "picins" to include graphics (both EPS and PDF) into Latex docs - I do it all the time, without picins in my local Tex installation: just \usepackage{graphicx} and \includegraphics{...} In any case, apparently it is NOT a regression (I am correcting myself here): upon further research, I do not think I ever built gnuplot.pdf myself. Nevertheless, I wonder whether we should get rid of this odd dependency. Best, Ph. > > Allin Cottrell |
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From: sfeam <sf...@us...> - 2014-11-07 01:53:39
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On Thursday, 06 November 2014 05:37:52 PM Philipp K. Janert wrote: > On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 20:16:30 -0500 (EST) > Allin Cottrell <cot...@wf...> wrote: > > > On Thu, 6 Nov 2014, Philipp K. Janert wrote: > > > > > > > > I seem to have a problem building the PDF of > > > the doc with RC2. > > > > > > After > > > ./configure > > > make > > > make install > > > > > > I ran: > > > make pdf > > > which resulted in an error msg: > > > ! LaTeX Error: File `picins.sty' not found. > > > which is funny, because I have a pretty complete > > > Latex installation (including texlive-pictures). > > > > > > I was surprised - at least in my memory I was able > > > to create the PDF for RC1 without a problem. > > > > > > Is this a known problem or am I doing something wrong? > > > > This seems relevant: > > http://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/patches/432/ > > Thanks for pointing this out. > > I don't understand Ethan's comment to this patch: > I have never needed "picins" to include graphics > (both EPS and PDF) into Latex docs - I do it all > the time, without picins in my local Tex installation: > just > \usepackage{graphicx} > and > \includegraphics{...} > > In any case, apparently it is NOT a regression (I > am correcting myself here): upon further research, > I do not think I ever built gnuplot.pdf myself. > > Nevertheless, I wonder whether we should get rid of > this odd dependency. If you can find or create an adequate replacement for picins, feel free to contribute. I have not found anything suitable. Ethan |
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From: Allin C. <cot...@wf...> - 2014-11-07 01:46:59
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On Thu, 6 Nov 2014, Philipp K. Janert wrote: > > I seem to have a problem building the PDF of > the doc with RC2. > > After > ./configure > make > make install > > I ran: > make pdf > which resulted in an error msg: > ! LaTeX Error: File `picins.sty' not found. > which is funny, because I have a pretty complete > Latex installation (including texlive-pictures). > > I was surprised - at least in my memory I was able > to create the PDF for RC1 without a problem. > > Is this a known problem or am I doing something wrong? This seems relevant: http://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/patches/432/ Allin Cottrell |
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From: Allin C. <cot...@wf...> - 2014-11-07 01:54:57
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On Thu, 6 Nov 2014, Philipp K. Janert wrote: > On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 20:16:30 -0500 (EST) > Allin Cottrell <cot...@wf...> wrote: > >> On Thu, 6 Nov 2014, Philipp K. Janert wrote: >> >>> >>> I seem to have a problem building the PDF of >>> the doc with RC2. >>> >>> After >>> ./configure >>> make >>> make install >>> >>> I ran: >>> make pdf >>> which resulted in an error msg: >>> ! LaTeX Error: File `picins.sty' not found. >>> which is funny, because I have a pretty complete >>> Latex installation (including texlive-pictures). >>> >>> I was surprised - at least in my memory I was able >>> to create the PDF for RC1 without a problem. >>> >>> Is this a known problem or am I doing something wrong? >> >> This seems relevant: >> http://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/patches/432/ > > Thanks for pointing this out. > > I don't understand Ethan's comment to this patch: > I have never needed "picins" to include graphics > (both EPS and PDF) into Latex docs - I do it all > the time, without picins in my local Tex installation [...] As I understand Ethan's comment, he's talking about flowing text around an included graphic. I find I'm able to do this using the minipage environment plus \includegraphics from the graphicx package. It's not difficult to download and install picins.sty individually but I agree it would be better to avoid it if possible since it's not part of the current TeX Live de facto standard. Allin Cottrell |
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From: Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...> - 2014-11-07 02:05:52
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On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 20:54:47 -0500 (EST) Allin Cottrell <cot...@wf...> wrote: > On Thu, 6 Nov 2014, Philipp K. Janert wrote: > > > On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 20:16:30 -0500 (EST) > > Allin Cottrell <cot...@wf...> wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 6 Nov 2014, Philipp K. Janert wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> I seem to have a problem building the PDF of > >>> the doc with RC2. > >>> > >>> After > >>> ./configure > >>> make > >>> make install > >>> > >>> I ran: > >>> make pdf > >>> which resulted in an error msg: > >>> ! LaTeX Error: File `picins.sty' not found. > >>> which is funny, because I have a pretty complete > >>> Latex installation (including texlive-pictures). > >>> > >>> I was surprised - at least in my memory I was able > >>> to create the PDF for RC1 without a problem. > >>> > >>> Is this a known problem or am I doing something wrong? > >> > >> This seems relevant: > >> http://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/patches/432/ > > > > Thanks for pointing this out. > > > > I don't understand Ethan's comment to this patch: > > I have never needed "picins" to include graphics > > (both EPS and PDF) into Latex docs - I do it all > > the time, without picins in my local Tex installation [...] > > As I understand Ethan's comment, he's talking about flowing text > around an included graphic. I find I'm able to do this using > the minipage environment plus \includegraphics from the > graphicx package. I see. I did not realize this. > > It's not difficult to download and install picins.sty individually > but I agree it would be better to avoid it if possible since it's > not part of the current TeX Live de facto standard. Hm, "The Latex Companion" mentions wrapfig, which seems to provide similar functionality, and which is part of texlive-latex-extra. The other question is whether the wrapping functionality is even necessary. Just text, followed by a centered fig, followed by more text seems totally adequate (to me)... But probably not worth spending a great deal of time on (as long as people understand this particular dependency - I did not). Best, Ph. |
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From: Christoph B. <us...@be...> - 2014-11-07 09:58:37
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Zitat von Allin Cottrell <cot...@wf...>: > > As I understand Ethan's comment, he's talking about flowing text > around an included graphic. I find I'm able to do this using > the minipage environment plus \includegraphics from the > graphicx package. Indeed, the picins package is for flowing text around a graphic. Unfortunately, its license doesn't allow it to be included in a TeX distribution (at least not in TeXLive), which is the main problem. I had tried replacing picins with wrapfigure, but didn't succeed. I couldn't get the settings correct to reproduce the current behavior. Especially paragraphs and page breaks mess things up. Using minipage and includegraphics should work fine, or also using the sidecap package and giving the images a caption on the side, when necessary. This would however required additional changes in the gnuplot.doc file to have more parts which contains specific formatting for the LaTeX output. I can see if I can come up with a reasonable alternative. Christoph |
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From: Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...> - 2014-11-07 15:28:56
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[snip] > Using minipage and includegraphics should work fine, or also using > the sidecap package and giving the images a caption on the side, > when necessary. This would however required additional changes in > the gnuplot.doc file to have more parts which contains specific > formatting for the LaTeX output. > > I can see if I can come up with a reasonable alternative. It's not a big deal, since the pre-built pdf is part of the release. Maybe it's enough to make the dependency on a "non-standard" package clearer? > > Christoph > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > gnuplot-beta mailing list > gnu...@li... > Membership management via: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuplot-beta |
