Re: Regression problem with gp5-rc2: make pdf fails

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

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