[Mpi-forum] (Continued) Latex woes

[Jeff Squyres]

Thanks!

Is there an SVN permissions problem such that you can't commit? (assumedly to the /minutiae branch, since the MPIreplace* (etc.) macros are not on the /approved branch...?)


On Jun 9, 2011, at 8:23 PM, William Gropp wrote:

> Attached is the diff of the fix.  I can't commit it, so one of you will need to.
> 
> Bill
> 
> <fix>
> 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?
>>> 
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>> Deputy Director for Research
>> Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies
>> Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science
>> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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