TeX, LaTeX and Friends

12:00 AM

@Canageek er well it has been mentioned that reading the code is more reliable than reading doc:-)

Nope, they use that to mean Windows

@DavidCarlisle Fair, but that doesn't tell me how to use it, I'm only just getting used to latex enough to understand what I'm reading. Also if I hadn't hit those error messages I wouldn't have thought to search for what it is testing for with rm

David Carlisle

@Canageek of course it'll also fail in luatex these days (which doesn't use write18 by default)

Canageek

Also I could write this better! Don't make that an option! Which of those commands works and use that, why do I have to tell you which I have, you can obviously check!

Canageek

12:12 AM

Ok, testing if I'm reading this right and if I, an idiot when it comes to TeX can see a better way to do this then whomever wrote the origional since I'm that annoyed:

Would this, in theory at least, work?

\ExecuteOptions{shell}
\newif\ifcmd
\newif\ifnix
\ProcessOptions\relax
%% test if shell escape really works
\ifShellEscape
\def\tmpfile{w18-test-\the\year\the\month\the\day\the\time.tex}
\immediate\write18{echo t > "\tmpfile"}
\IfFileExists{\tmpfile}{\ifcmdtrue}{\ifcmdfalse}
\ifcmpd
\else
\immediate\write18{touch \tmpfile}

Dammit, it removed all my indentation

pastebin.com/uL9iDanL

@DavidCarlisle Would the above code work, at least in theory?

OK, now it works. My GNUplot SCRIPT doesn't, but it isn't LaTeX's fault

[7 <./ThesisMasterDoc-figure1.pdf> <./ThesisMasterDoc-figure2.pdf>] [8 <./Thesi
sMasterDoc-figure3.pdf>]
Opening gnuplot stream ./ThesisMasterDoc-gnuplottex-fig1.gnuplot
(./ThesisMasterDoc-gnuplottex-fig1.tex
Runaway argument?
[gnuplot] \path (0.000,0.000) rectangle (12.500,8.750); \begin {scope\ETC.
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=5000000].
l.33428 ffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff...

! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

Ok need to figure out how to give TeX more memory it sounds like

@DavidCarlisle is pdflatex x86 or x64?

Oh, Another example is the x86 family, of which processors of three different word lengths (16-bit, later 32- and 64-bit) have been released, while word continues to designate a 16-bit quantity.

So that would be 2 bytes per word?

If that is true pdflatex's maximum is ... 5000000 * 2 / 1024/1024.... 9.5 MEGABYTES?

Ok, so even if that is an x86 word that is less then 40 MB. Effing heck, most of my software uses a gigabyte to wake up

Lets see what giving it some REAL memory ( 1063741824 ) does

Canageek

12:56 AM

OK, even setting it to the maximum amount, which is only 8 million it seems didn't 'work

The manual says you'll probably have to use lualatex with the TikZ renderer

The code I have WORKS with JPEG output, but blows through TeX's memory with TikZ and the others don't seem to work

Ug, this is a after Christmas problem now

is moving to LuaLaTeX going to be hard?

cfr

2:42 AM

@Plergux beth yw 'ên-diaper'? 'gên' yn iawn, ond 'diaper'? (Gŵgl ddim yn helpu :(.)

@PauloCereda Diolch yn fawr am y cerdyn Nadolig hyfred! I'm behind with my makings this year, I'm afraid. Only managed to get 4 in the post on Monday, so prioritised UK. (Last year, I managed 10 and posted the first in October to Brazil So pretty pathetic this time.)

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