#1252 Rendering of % operator not correct in LaTeX export

[Steve Keen]

I have been cutting and pasting from the text file into Word for some time, and thought I'd try instead putting the TeX file into a proper LaTeX editor and copying from that. Unfortunately the document failed to load properly in Overleaf or Lyx.

I think we might need two flavours of LaTeX output: one where the equations only are outputted, which would help with the "copy and paste" approach; and one with a document output that does load into standard distributions.

[High Performance Coder]

Can't you open an empty document in Lyx or whatever, then insert the
contents of the minsky generated file? That seems to me to be a little
easier than asking someone to top'n'tail the generated output.

On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 02:58:04AM -0000, Steve Keen wrote:

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[tickets:#1252] LaTeX doesn't load properly into several TeX editors

Status: open
Milestone: Say
Created: Sun Sep 06, 2020 02:58 AM UTC by Steve Keen
Last Updated: Sun Sep 06, 2020 02:58 AM UTC
Owner: nobody
Attachments:

• LaTeX_Source.mky (129.1 kB; application/octet-stream)
• MinskyInLyx.PNG (560.6 kB; image/png)
• MinskyInOverleaf.PNG (374.1 kB; image/png)

I have been cutting and pasting from the text file into Word for some time, and
thought I'd try instead putting the TeX file into a proper LaTeX editor and
copying from that. Unfortunately the document failed to load properly in
Overleaf or Lyx.

I think we might need two flavours of LaTeX output: one where the equations
only are outputted, which would help with the "copy and paste" approach; and
one with a document output that does load into standard distributions.

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[Steve Keen]

Here's the result of trying that on Overleaf. I expect the files work on the TeX processor you use; the fact that something works on one but not another is one reason I've been loathe to migrate to LaTeX over the years.

Movie's too big, so I've truncated it for just the overleaf part.

[Steve Keen]

I've shared the project with you on Overleaf as well.

[High Performance Coder]

I ran latex on the output generated by this .mky file, and the problem is a variable called Debt/GDP_Private^% and others of that ilk. The problem is that '%' is LaTeX's comment character, and so needs to be escaped if used as a literal, \%. I tried replacing all instances of % with \%, but ran into another problem that the latex export of the % operator is also incorrect. It should be \left(... \right)\%, but instead it is \left ... \right%, which is nonsense in LaTeX speak.

So at least 2 bugs caused by the % operator...

[Steve Keen]

Excellent! I didn't expect that this could be solved by anything less than a large scale recode. If this is "all" there is, maybe it can be knocked off for Malthus.

In any case, the program is far more usable and stable now than a year back, pre-Friends. I'll be posting a new refereed paper making extensive use of Minsky next week I hope. Plus there's a probable seminar with MMT students in a few weeks. So we're definitely achieving the larger aims even with some bugs still floating around.

[Hedley Finger]

Steve:

The developers of LyX decided to 'improve' Latex, so it is not compatible.
The Atom editor has a LaTeX plugin. It also has neurosurgery. You can also
get a plugin for HTML and other programming languages.

Regards,
Hedley

1 / 17 Glyndon Road, Camberwell VIC 3124, Australia
hedley.finger@gmail.com
Tel. +61 3 9836 4635
Cell +61 412 461 558
Typed laboriously on Samsung Galaxy Note 3

On Sun, 6 Sep 2020 16:56 Steve Keen profstevekeen@users.sourceforge.net
wrote:

Excellent! I didn't expect that this could be solved by anything less than
a large scale recode. If this is "all" there is, maybe it can be knocked
off for Malthus.

In any case, the program is far more usable and stable now than a year
back, pre-Friends. I'll be posting a new refereed paper making extensive
use of Minsky next week I hope. Plus there's a probable seminar with MMT
students in a few weeks. So we're definitely achieving the larger aims even
with some bugs still floating around.

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• [tickets:#1252] https://sourceforge.net/p/minsky/tickets/1252/ LaTeX
  doesn't load properly into several TeX editors*

Status: open
Milestone: Say
Created: Sun Sep 06, 2020 02:58 AM UTC by Steve Keen
Last Updated: Sun Sep 06, 2020 06:34 AM UTC
Owner: nobody
Attachments:

• LaTeX_Source.mky
  https://sourceforge.net/p/minsky/tickets/1252/attachment/LaTeX_Source.mky
  (129.1 kB; application/octet-stream)
• MinskyInLyx.PNG
  https://sourceforge.net/p/minsky/tickets/1252/attachment/MinskyInLyx.PNG
  (560.6 kB; image/png)
• MinskyInOverleaf.PNG
  https://sourceforge.net/p/minsky/tickets/1252/attachment/MinskyInOverleaf.PNG
  (374.1 kB; image/png)

I have been cutting and pasting from the text file into Word for some
time, and thought I'd try instead putting the TeX file into a proper LaTeX
editor and copying from that. Unfortunately the document failed to load
properly in Overleaf or Lyx.

I think we might need two flavours of LaTeX output: one where the
equations only are outputted, which would help with the "copy and paste"
approach; and one with a document output that does load into standard
distributions.

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[Wynand]

I think I've fixed this one. See attached silent demo.