[Mpi-forum] (Continued) Latex woes

[William Gropp]

I've committed it in one place in the approved branch, but can't fix  
it in the bw-compat ticket 278 branch.

Bill

On Jun 10, 2011, at 7:08 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote:

> 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?
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Jeff Squyres
>>>> jsquyres at cisco.com
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>>> Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies
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>>> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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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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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