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No file 'mpx314.aux'
by Joel Black 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

I have written a Venn diagram metapost file, which I successfully ran on Troy Henderson's metapost previewer while at work. prologues:=3; verbatimtex %&latex \documentclass{minimal} \begin{document} etex beginfig(1); draw (0,0)--(200,0)--(200,160)--(0,160)--(0,0); draw fullcircle scaled 80 shifted (80,80); draw fullcircle scaled 80 shifted (120,80); label.lrt (btex $\xi$ etex,(0,160)); label.lrt (btex $A$ etex, (40, 120)); label.llft (btex $B$ etex,(160,120)); endfig; end; However, now that I am working on it at home, the error message "no file 'mpx314.aux'" appears when I try to compile it. I have tried it on my older system (Miktex 2.6 running on Vista) and on my laptop (Miktex 2.8 running on Vista Home Premium). Actually, on the laptop I also get a popup telling me that "dvitomp.exe has stopped working" and directing me to the Windows update page. Am I doing something silly, or is this a bug, or what? Thanks kindly. Joel.

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How to make an accent
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Hello, How to make an accent over a letter in a word? I use Times New Roman and Cyrillic letters. Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Setup math for times typescript
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Hello, Hm.. Looks like a have a serious problem. How to setup math for times typescript (Times New Roman) from type-win? Whenever I try to specify typescript for a math font, I get the fatal error: math virtual | the mapping is incomplete for 'txmath' at 393216 Actually, I even don't know how to setup [mm] properly. Please, help me with this. Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Suppress section numbering for first section
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Hi again, Sorry for flooding the list, but I started a big project and have tons of questions ) How to suppress numbering solely for Introduction section? Strange, but my elegant solution does not work: \section[number=no]{INTRO} Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Define exercise captions
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Hello, I need to define a Exercise command that will enumerate exercises and provide captions. For example, \exercise{Conversion from hex to dec} should produce Exercise 1.1. Conversion from hex to dec. What is the best way to achieve that? Use \definehead or another command? Best regards, Vyatcheslav

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Getting number of figure pages in MkIV
by Aditya Mahajan 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Hi, What is the correct way of getting the number of figure pages in MkIV. The following, which works in MkII, always gives 0 is MkIV. \getfiguredimensions[filename] \noffigurepages Thanks, Aditya

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Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 64, Issue 107
by Michael Green 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> They released a patch for this problem in April 2009. Specifically, >> they >> patched the binary files dvips and pdftex >> >> Have these patches been applied to the versions of dvips and pdftex >> in the >> minimals? > > Not for dvips for a simple reason. It's not in minimals. The sources > for minimals contain the latest stable pdftex branch (that's returning > errors during compilation at the moment). That's curious. There's a file called dvips in my minimals-context/tex/ temf-osx-intel/bin/ It seems to be dated 9/17/07 The version of pdftex is newer than the patched one: July 22 2009 vs. March 31 2009. I'm going to assume it's OK. Taco Hoekwater wrote: >> >> Question: is this still a problem for luatex 0.44? (Please say no). > > I applied a patch tagged 'Melissa O'Neill' on March 22 (included as > of luatex-0.36.0), which I think is the one this is about. > > Best wishes, > Taco > That looks right. Thank you!

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2UP
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Hallo, years ago I had the same problem: with 2UP the table of contents is not included! Wasn't this a bug? Wolfgang

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pdfs with boxes instead of letters
by Michael Green 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

On Oct 30, 2009, Oliver Buerschaper wrote: > > I seem to have spoken too soon. The very next document I prepared > > had the same boxes-rather-than-letters problem. > > > > That said, I cleared the font caches again and, after restarting, > > the document looked correct. Perhaps this is a coincidence. Or > > perhaps there is something amiss with the way my computers are > > caching fonts. Sigh. > > Well, if your engine is pdftex (from an unpatched TeXLive 2008) then > chances are you're running into the nasty (TM) font cache bug: > > http://www.tug.org/mactex/fontcache/ > > Oliver The symptoms seem right: strange, unpredictable display problems with Apple's pdf software but not Adobe's. And it's not just pdftex, apparently. They say that luatex is affected too. That's primarily what I use. So we have both known symptoms (sort of - they're vague) and an allegedly known cause. Perhaps we have a diagnosis. Here is Dick Koch, "A Fix for the Corrupt Font Cache Bug" http://www.tug.org/mactex/fontcache/Font-Cache-Bugfix.pdf > The “corrupt font cache bug” on OS X has been traced by Melissa > O’Neill to a bug in pdftex, present in that program since 2004. > The incorrect code is also used in other programs, notably dvips, > luatex, and metapost. … > > The code containing the pdftex bug was used with little change in > modern versions of dvips, so ﬁxing the bug in dvips was not > diﬃcult. However, it wasn’t so easy to ﬁnd the corresponding > code in luatex and metapost. Instead of waiting for decisive ﬁxes > in these programs, we decided to just release the ﬁxed pdftex and > dvips. This should ﬁx the bug for most users. Notice that pdftex > is used when typesetting in “pdftex” mode and dvips is used when > typesetting in “TeX and DVI” mode. XeTeX does not have the bug. And in another document, "Looking over the Debugger’s Shoulders ", Koch summarizes what they discovered this way: http://www.tug.org/mactex/fontcache/Debugging.pdf > Two bugs contributed to the problem. First, pdftex, dvips, luatex, > and metapost were not correctly subsetting certain fonts. And > second, a large number of fonts contained subroutines which did not > conclude with a RETURN command. Many of these were created with the > utility mmpfb, which has been patched. Question: is this still a problem for luatex 0.44? (Please say no). If not, perhaps I should clean my caches and use only MkII/XeTeX. Even then, I gather that old documents created with luatex will still be little time bombs (see Appendix, below). I guess I have to delete all pdfs made by luatex and regenerate them as needed. That's a lot of documents. "Nasty" is right. Oy. mjg Appendix: Koch's explanation of why the font cache might become corrupt seemingly for no reason at all. http://www.tug.org/mactex/fontcache/Font-Cache-Bugfix.pdf > When GUI programs display pdf ﬁles, they call Apple’s internal > pdf routines. In turn, these routines call Apple’s font routines > to construct bitmaps for the outline fonts. These Apple routines > store the bitmaps in a font cache to speed up future display. For > reasons unknown until recently, this font cache can become corrupt; > this is “triggered” by displaying a defective pdf ﬁle. After > that trigger, display problems persist for all ﬁles. To ﬁx the > problem, the font cache needs to be rebuilt, as happens when the > machine is rebooted. Adobe Acrobat does not use Apple’s pdf > display routines, so it is immune to the bug. ... > > Once you install the repaired pdftex and dvips binaries, pdf ﬁles > created by these programs will not contain damaged fonts and thus > won’t trigger the bug. But unfortunately, your old pdf ﬁles may > still be damaged. In addition, users on other platforms won’t have > the repaired binaries for some time, so pdf ﬁles sent by > colleagues may still be damaged and trigger the bug. That is why > you may still experience the bug from time to time until the TeX > world catches up. > > It isn’t even necessary to display an old damaged pdf ﬁle to > trigger the bug, because Apple’s QuickLook software and the > software in Finder which gives a miniature version of the ﬁrst > page in the ﬁle browser can trigger it. If you keep experiencing > the bug after applying the ﬁx, you may need to retypeset ﬁles > which you often open.

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pdfs with boxes instead of letters
by Michael Green 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

On Oct 30, 2009, Oliver Buerschaper wrote: > Well, if your engine is pdftex (from an unpatched TeXLive 2008) then > chances are you're running into the nasty (TM) font cache bug: > > http://www.tug.org/mactex/fontcache/ > > Oliver One other question. which pdftex shows that it's in the minimal distribution They released a patch for this problem in April 2009. Specifically, they patched the binary files dvips and pdftex Have these patches been applied to the versions of dvips and pdftex in the minimals? If not, is there any reason why I shouldn't substitute these patched versions for the ones in the minimals? Thanks. mjg Source for the patch: http://www.tug.org/mactex/fontcache/ http://www.tug.org/mactex/fontcache/patchedbinaries.tar.gz

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