[Mpi-forum] (Continued) Latex woes

[William Gropp]

Floats lost is often due to a limitation in LaTeX.  One possible issue  
is that the the change markers use floats, and so do tables.  LaTeX  
isn't very happy with floats within floats.  I'm in a meeting today  
and can't look at it until later, but one solution may be to inline  
the ticket info in these cases.

Bill

On Jun 9, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote:

> Bill --
>
> We're still having latex woes in ticket 278.  Can you help?
>
> We replaced all the \MPIreplace macros with deletebegin/end and  
> updatebegin/end, but we're still getting "Float(s) lost".  It seems  
> to have to do with a table in datatype.tex.  The table looks like  
> this:
>
> -----
> \begin{table}[ht]
> \begin{center}
> \begin{constlist}
> \constitem{MPI\_COMBINER\_NAMED}{a named predefined datatype}
> ...etc.
> \MPIdeleteBegin{3.0}{278}
> \constitem{MPI\_COMBINER\_HVECTOR\_INTEGER}{\mpifunc{MPI\_TYPE 
> \_HVECTOR} from Fortran}
> \constitem{MPI\_COMBINER\_HVECTOR}{\mpifunc{MPI\_TYPE\_HVECTOR} from  
> C or C++}
> \constskipitem{}{\ \ and in some case Fortran}
> \constskipitem{}{\ \  or \mpifunc{MPI\_TYPE\_CREATE\_HVECTOR}}
> \MPIdeleteEnd{3.0}
> \MPIupdateBegin{3.0}{278}
> \constitem{MPI\_COMBINER\_HVECTOR}{\mpifunc{MPI\_TYPE\_CREATE 
> \_HVECTOR}}
> \MPIupdateEnd{3.0}
> ...etc.
> -----
>
> If we remove all the \MPIdelete* and \MPIupdate* macros, it builds  
> ok.  If we put even one of them back, we get "Float(s) lost" and  
> pdflatex aborts.  But other than that, we're totally stumped (we've  
> wasted 2+ hours trying to solve this so far :-( ).
>
> What should we do?
>
> -- 
> Jeff Squyres
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William Gropp
Director, Parallel Computing Institute
Deputy Director for Research
Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies
Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign