Re: [PyX-devel] Problems building manual.pdf

[Michael S. <m-s...@us...>]

Hello Andrea,

On 06.09.05, Andrea Riciputi wrote:
> The second problem is more subtle and I haven't understood it  
> completely. After patching the Makefile as show above, the  
> compilation of the manual fails while processing graph.tex with the  
> following error message:
> 
> >! Undefined control sequence.
> >\filenq #1->{\py@smallsize \textsf {\let \e
> >                                            =\textbackslash #1}}
> >l.44 ... for the data from file \file{graph.dat}.}
> >
> >?
> >! Emergency stop.
> >\filenq #1->{\py@smallsize \textsf {\let \e
> >                                            =\textbackslash #1}}
> >l.44 ... for the data from file \file{graph.dat}.}

I do not understand this either, but I had the same problem.
Strange enough, if you define \e in any way, either using \def or

  \let\e=\textbackslash

at the beginning of graph.tex, there is no error anymore, and
everything works.

> Removing the \file{} macro from the caption on line 44 solved the  
> problem, and the compilation of the manual completes successfully.  
> However, not having found where the definition for the  \file{} macro  
> is located, I wasn't be able to understand the real reason of this  
> failure. Could you help me?
> 
> For sake of completeness here they are the specifications of my teTeX  
> distro:
> 
> >Totila:~ andrea$ latex --version
> >pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)

you are using pdftex as default engine. Did you have to change
manual.cls also? See the python bug report on this
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1238210&group_id=5470&atid=105470

Michael.

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