pgfplots module needs update from December

Gavin

21 Aug 2021 21 Aug '21

6:05 a.m.

Hello list, The module pgfplots has a bug that produces an error for polar plots, and perhaps in other situations. tex error > tex error on line 20 in file ./chapter02-t-b-728d71c9823ff6bed735c6d6e1758718.tmp: Undefined control sequence <macro> \pgfplots@environment@polaraxis@ [#1]->\begin {axis}[#1,data cs=polar,axis type=polar] ] This bug was described and fixed on the pgfplots GitHub repository in December (https://github.com/pgf-tikz/pgfplots/pull/382). I fixed the bug on my personal installation, but when I update the modules using the wiki instructions, the bug returns. In the LMTX installation, the file requiring the fix is: context-osx-64/tex/texmf-modules/generic/pgfplots/pgfplots.code.tex The fix is: Line 7928: change “\begin{axis}" to “\axis” Line 7934: change “\end{axis}" to “\endaxis” Is there anything I can do to aid in getting this fixed in the distribution? Thanks, Gavin

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Mojca Miklavec

21 Aug 21 Aug

1:26 p.m.

Dear Gavin, On Sat, 21 Aug 2021 at 06:05, Gavin via ntg-context wrote:

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The module pgfplots has a bug that produces an error for polar plots, and perhaps in other situations.

Is there anything I can do to aid in getting this fixed in the distribution?

Can you please try updating and checking again (at least with the "legacy installer", I'm not sure how Hans handles the modules for lmtx)? Mojca

Hans Hagen

2:02 p.m.

On 8/21/2021 1:26 PM, Mojca Miklavec via ntg-context wrote:

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Dear Gavin,

On Sat, 21 Aug 2021 at 06:05, Gavin via ntg-context wrote:

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The module pgfplots has a bug that produces an error for polar plots, and perhaps in other situations.

Is there anything I can do to aid in getting this fixed in the distribution?

Can you please try updating and checking again (at least with the "legacy installer", I'm not sure how Hans handles the modules for lmtx)? I don't because then I need to have them on my system and I'm too lazy to update ... of course I do sync with the garden when I do a normal update so I guess that normally I have an okay tikz (as I don't use it, apart from a few tests in the suite, I depend on users to report issues.)

(Users can just symlink an lmtx module tree to the 'legacy' mkiv modules tree.) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Gavin

22 Aug 22 Aug

2:25 p.m.

Hi Mojca, (I mistakenly sent this only to Mojca. I’m sending again to the group.)

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Is there anything I can do to aid in getting this fixed in the distribution?

Can you please try updating and checking again (at least with the "legacy installer", I'm not sure how Hans handles the modules for lmtx)?

I just installed again and now pgfplots doesn’t work at all. Before it didn’t work just for polar plots. The new error is tex error > tex error on line 48 in file /Users/Gavin/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-modules/tex/generic/pgfplots/pgfplots.code.tex: ! I can't find file `pgflibrarypgfplots.contourlua.code.tex'. The instructions I followed from the garden are below. - Gavin

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# Synchronize all modules from the ConTeXt Garden in the directory 'modules' which is created if it doesn't exist.

rsync -rltv --del rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/modules/ modules

# Create the union of all modules in tex/texmf-modules (the directory is created if it doesn't exist). # If you have personal modules in tex/texmf-modules, they won't be modified.

rsync -rlt --exclude=/VERSION --del modules/*/ tex/texmf-modules

# You may delete the 'module's directory to reclaim some space or keep it to speed up the next update. # rm -rf modules

# Update the ConTeXt LMTX distribution. Alternatively, if you do not # want to do that, you have to run mtxrun --generate.

sh ./install.sh

Hans Hagen

3:20 p.m.

On 8/22/2021 2:25 PM, Gavin via ntg-context wrote:

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Hi Mojca,

(I mistakenly sent this only to Mojca. I’m sending again to the group.)

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Is there anything I can do to aid in getting this fixed in the distribution?

Can you please try updating and checking again (at least with the "legacy installer", I'm not sure how Hans handles the modules for lmtx)?

I just installed again and now pgfplots doesn’t work at all. Before it didn’t work just for polar plots. The new error is you haven't post the tex code that fails so no one can check it

Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Gavin

3:42 p.m.

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On Aug 22, 2021, at 7:20 AM, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:

On 8/22/2021 2:25 PM, Gavin via ntg-context wrote:

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Hi Mojca, (I mistakenly sent this only to Mojca. I’m sending again to the group.)

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Is there anything I can do to aid in getting this fixed in the distribution?

Can you please try updating and checking again (at least with the "legacy installer", I'm not sure how Hans handles the modules for lmtx)? I just installed again and now pgfplots doesn’t work at all. Before it didn’t work just for polar plots. The new error is you haven't post the tex code that fails so no one can check it

Hans

usemodule[tikz] \usemodule[pgfplots] \usetikzlibrary[pgfplots.polar] \startTEXpage \starttikzpicture \startpolaraxis \addplot coordinates {(0,1) (90,1) (180,1) (270,1)}; \stoppolaraxis \stoptikzpicture \stopTEXpage

Hans Hagen

4:13 p.m.

On 8/22/2021 3:42 PM, Gavin wrote:

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On Aug 22, 2021, at 7:20 AM, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:

On 8/22/2021 2:25 PM, Gavin via ntg-context wrote:

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Hi Mojca, (I mistakenly sent this only to Mojca. I’m sending again to the group.)

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Is there anything I can do to aid in getting this fixed in the distribution?

Can you please try updating and checking again (at least with the "legacy installer", I'm not sure how Hans handles the modules for lmtx)? I just installed again and now pgfplots doesn’t work at all. Before it didn’t work just for polar plots. The new error is you haven't post the tex code that fails so no one can check it

Hans

usemodule[tikz] \usemodule[pgfplots] \usetikzlibrary[pgfplots.polar]

\startTEXpage \starttikzpicture \startpolaraxis \addplot coordinates {(0,1) (90,1) (180,1) (270,1)}; \stoppolaraxis \stoptikzpicture \stopTEXpage even when you say

\def\begin#1{\csname begin#1\endcsname} to get around the first hurdle it fails because \addplot is not defined i can't grep it in the tikz module tree either but there are files with 'plot' in it, so maybe you need to install more or maybe the commands / interfaces changed (if it keeps failing on you, you can always try to use metapost instead) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Gavin

4:32 p.m.

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On Aug 22, 2021, at 8:13 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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you haven't post the tex code that fails so no one can check it

Hans usemodule[tikz] \usemodule[pgfplots] \usetikzlibrary[pgfplots.polar] \startTEXpage \starttikzpicture \startpolaraxis \addplot coordinates {(0,1) (90,1) (180,1) (270,1)}; \stoppolaraxis \stoptikzpicture \stopTEXpage

even when you say

\def\begin#1{\csname begin#1\endcsname}

to get around the first hurdle it fails because \addplot is not defined

i can't grep it in the tikz module tree either but there are files with 'plot' in it, so maybe you need to install more or maybe the commands / interfaces changed

(if it keeps failing on you, you can always try to use metapost instead)

Hans

Hi Hans, It doesn’t keep failing for me because the fix is well documented, so I fixed it on my machine. I am just imagining that it might be nice to put that fix in the modules that people download. For example, a teacher wants to help me test my book, so he followed the instructions on the wiki to instal ConTeXt (LMTX) and the modules (https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modules). Then he had to go in and change two commands the file: context-osx-64/tex/texmf-modules/generic/pgfplots/pgfplots.code.tex The changes are: Line 7928: change “\begin{axis}" to “\axis” Line 7934: change “\end{axis}" to “\endaxis” Then everything is great. I don't know where the modules live and how they are maintained, but if this fix could be put into those modules before people download them, that would be helpful as I add more collaborators. Thanks! Gavin

Hans Hagen

6:13 p.m.

On 8/22/2021 4:32 PM, Gavin wrote:

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On Aug 22, 2021, at 8:13 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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you haven't post the tex code that fails so no one can check it

Hans usemodule[tikz] \usemodule[pgfplots] \usetikzlibrary[pgfplots.polar] \startTEXpage \starttikzpicture \startpolaraxis \addplot coordinates {(0,1) (90,1) (180,1) (270,1)}; \stoppolaraxis \stoptikzpicture \stopTEXpage

even when you say

\def\begin#1{\csname begin#1\endcsname}

to get around the first hurdle it fails because \addplot is not defined

i can't grep it in the tikz module tree either but there are files with 'plot' in it, so maybe you need to install more or maybe the commands / interfaces changed

(if it keeps failing on you, you can always try to use metapost instead)

Hans

Hi Hans,

It doesn’t keep failing for me because the fix is well documented, so I fixed it on my machine. I am just imagining that it might be nice to put that fix in the modules that people download. For example, a teacher wants to help me test my book, so he followed the instructions on the wiki to instal ConTeXt (LMTX) and the modules (https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modules). Then he had to go in and change two commands the file:

context-osx-64/tex/texmf-modules/generic/pgfplots/pgfplots.code.tex

The changes are:

Line 7928: change “\begin{axis}" to “\axis” Line 7934: change “\end{axis}" to “\endaxis”

Then everything is great.

I don't know where the modules live and how they are maintained, but if this fix could be put into those modules before people download them, that would be helpful as I add more collaborators. it makes no sense to mojca to fix modules that come from elsewhere because a next time it might be different so when tikz is not updated on ctan (where it's fetched from) it's not an official fix

(a well documented tikz fix that doesn't go into tikz is not really a fix, is it?) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

Mojca Miklavec

6:27 p.m.

V ned., 22. avg. 2021 18:13 je oseba Hans Hagen via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> napisala:

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it makes no sense to mojca to fix modules that come from elsewhere because a next time it might be different so when tikz is not updated on ctan (where it's fetched from) it's not an official fix

I didn't have to fix anything in the code, but the git repository was moved, so the module wasn't kept up to date for a while. I just updated the URL for fetching the latest sources. Mojca

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Gavin

7:32 p.m.

On Aug 22, 2021, at 10:27 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

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I didn't have to fix anything in the code, but the git repository was moved, so the module wasn't kept up to date for a while. I just updated the URL for fetching the latest sources.

Mojca

Thanks for making that fix. I am not sure what my next step should be. Should I wait a day for the system to do its fetching thing and then try the same instructions I followed before (https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modules#ConTeXt_LMTX)? I know very little about these rsync commands. I’m just cutting-and-pasting into my command line. Thanks! Gavin

Mojca Miklavec

7:36 p.m.

V ned., 22. avg. 2021 19:32 je oseba Gavin napisala:

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I am not sure what my next step should be. Should I wait a day for the system to do its fetching thing and then try the same instructions I followed before (https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modules#ConTeXt_LMTX)?

I know very little about these rsync commands. I’m just cutting-and-pasting into my command line.

Waiting won't help. Can you perhaps send full output of comping the sample that you posted earlier? What OS and architecture do you use? Mojca

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Gavin

11:19 p.m.

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V ned., 22. avg. 2021 19:32 je oseba Gavin napisala:

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I am not sure what my next step should be. Should I wait a day for the system to do its fetching thing and then try the same instructions I followed before (https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modules#ConTeXt_LMTX)?

I know very little about these rsync commands. I’m just cutting-and-pasting into my command line.

Waiting won't help. Can you perhaps send full output of comping the sample that you posted earlier? What OS and architecture do you use?

Mojca

Right now, my documents are all working fine (since I fixed my module). I don’t have a full output with the error. I’m using MacOS X86. It seems likely that I am the only person in the world who is working on a TikZ polar plot in a ConTeXt document right now. Since you found and fixed one potential source of the problem, and I’m currently functioning fine, I think I’ll set this aside for now and get some work done. When I have a little more time, I will try updating the modules again and compare the files to the current version of TikZ. Then, if everything is great, I’ll let you know. If anything is wrong, I’ll get the full logs and MWE and all that. In the meantime, if you have some specific update procedure you would like me to test, I’d be happy to do that. Just let me know what commands you want me to run. Thanks for all your help! Gavin

Gavin

6:30 p.m.

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Hi Hans, It doesn’t keep failing for me because the fix is well documented, so I fixed it on my machine. I am just imagining that it might be nice to put that fix in the modules that people download. For example, a teacher wants to help me test my book, so he followed the instructions on the wiki to instal ConTeXt (LMTX) and the modules (https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modules). Then he had to go in and change two commands the file: context-osx-64/tex/texmf-modules/generic/pgfplots/pgfplots.code.tex The changes are: Line 7928: change “\begin{axis}" to “\axis” Line 7934: change “\end{axis}" to “\endaxis” Then everything is great. I don't know where the modules live and how they are maintained, but if this fix could be put into those modules before people download them, that would be helpful as I add more collaborators. it makes no sense to mojca to fix modules that come from elsewhere because a next time it might be different so when tikz is not updated on ctan (where it's fetched from) it's not an official fix

(a well documented tikz fix that doesn't go into tikz is not really a fix, is it?)

Hans

TikZ is fixed on ctan (based on the fixed version in my TeXLive distribution). Mojca has directed me to a fixed version at distribution.contextgarden.net. I’m trying to figure out why my collaborator and I did not get that fixed version when we followed the instructions at https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modules#ConTeXt_LMTX. I’ll keep working on it. Gavin

Mojca Miklavec

6:57 p.m.

I used the latest commit from the git repository rather than the latest release. Mojcs

Mojca Miklavec

4:44 p.m.

On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 at 15:43, Gavin via ntg-context wrote:

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usemodule[tikz] \usemodule[pgfplots] \usetikzlibrary[pgfplots.polar]

\startTEXpage \starttikzpicture \startpolaraxis \addplot coordinates {(0,1) (90,1) (180,1) (270,1)}; \stoppolaraxis \stoptikzpicture \stopTEXpage

I tried a fresh installation of both MKIV and LMTX and both seem to work fine for me, so sadly I cannot reproduce the problem. (The files comes from rsync, from the same folder as shown here: https://distribution.contextgarden.net/current/modules/t-tikz/) Mojca

Gavin

5:45 p.m.

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On Aug 22, 2021, at 8:44 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

I tried a fresh installation of both MKIV and LMTX and both seem to work fine for me, so sadly I cannot reproduce the problem. (The files comes from rsync, from the same folder as shown here: https://distribution.contextgarden.net/current/modules/t-tikz/)

Mojca

The instructions we followed for installing the modules are at https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modules#ConTeXt_LMTX These instructions include the line rsync -rltv --del rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/modules/ modules This does not seem to produce the same files as the distribution.contextgarden.net address that you provided. Should we be following different installation instructions? Gavin

Mojca Miklavec

6 p.m.

On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 at 17:46, Gavin wrote:

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The instructions we followed for installing the modules are at

https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modules#ConTeXt_LMTX

These instructions include the line

rsync -rltv --del rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/modules/ modules

This does not seem to produce the same files as the distribution.contextgarden.net address that you provided.

What's the main difference? (Sure, you get all of the modules, not just TikZ. I somewhat suspect that old files don't get deleted, so you may also end up with some old files with the same name taking precedence and breaking the functionality.)

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Should we be following different installation instructions?

I didn't test them, but the instructions seem more or less correct. If you only need tikz (or just for testing with a fresh installation), you could test with something similar to rsync -av --delete rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/modules/t-tikz/ path-to/texmf-modules/ Mojca

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