[Mpi-forum] (Continued) Latex woes

[William Gropp]

Attached is the diff of the fix.  I can't commit it, so one of you  
will need to.

Bill

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On Jun 9, 2011, at 12:20 PM, William Gropp wrote:

> 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
>> jsquyres at cisco.com
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>>
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> Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies
> Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science
> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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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