Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!storethat.news.telefonica.de!feedme.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!diesel.cu.mi.it!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: giacomo boffi Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: [cairolatex] 4.6 -> 5.0 regression Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 19:44:48 +0100 Organization: The Sun and the Rain. Lines: 123 Message-ID: <87a8z6favz.fsf@pascolo.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-86-26.21-151.libero.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: virtdiesel.mng.cu.mi.it 1426963488 2103 151.21.26.86 (21 Mar 2015 18:44:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@diesel.cu.mi.it NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:44:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) XEmacs/21.5-b34 (linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:39q0teFmeDJlxFEc0mmBWrl8imM= Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:2837 I have the following test file |set terminal cairolatex pdf standalone mono dashed |set output 'test.tex' |test |set output when I use gnuplot 4 ("gnuplot 4.6 patchlevel 6", i.e., the version packaged in Debian testing) I get the expected results, when I use gnuplot 5 ("gnuplot 5.0 patchlevel 0" that I downloaded and installed today by a simple "./configure ; make ' make install") things are different... a "test.tex" and a "test-inc.pdf" are produced as well but when I try to process "test.tex" things are not OK |$ pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode test.tex |This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2015/dev/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex) | restricted \write18 enabled. |entering extended mode |(./test.tex |LaTeX2e <2014/05/01> |Babel <3.9l> and hyphenation patterns for 5 languages loaded. |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/minimal.cls |Document Class: minimal 2001/05/25 Standard LaTeX minimal class |) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size11.clo) |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty) |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty) |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/graphics.cfg) |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdftex-def/pdftex.def |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/infwarerr.sty) |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ltxcmds.sty)))) |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/color.sty |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/color.cfg)) |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty) |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifvtex.sty) |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty)) |Using configuration file gnuplot.cfg |(/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/gnuplot/gnuplot.cfg |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def))) (./test.aux) |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.mkii |[Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).] |) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/pdftexcmds.sty |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifluatex.sty)) |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/epstopdf-base.sty |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/grfext.sty |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/kvdefinekeys.sty)) |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/kvoptions.sty |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/kvsetkeys.sty |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/etexcmds.sty))) |(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/epstopdf-sys.cfg)) |*geometry* detected driver: pdftex | |! Missing $ inserted. | | $ |l.216 \gplfronttext | |! Extra }, or forgotten $. | \strut {}Enhanced text: {x@_{0}^{n+1}} | |l.216 \gplfronttext | |! Extra }, or forgotten $. |\@imakepicbox ...t@ #1\unitlength {\mb@l #4\mb@r } | \mb@b \kern \z@ } |l.216 \gplfronttext | |! Missing $ inserted. | | $ |l.216 \gplfronttext | |! Missing } inserted. | | } |l.216 \gplfronttext | |! Missing } inserted. | | } |l.216 \gplfronttext | |! Misplaced alignment tab character &. | \strut {}& | {Enhanced text: }{/:Bold Bold}{/:Italic Italic} |l.216 \gplfronttext | |[1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map} <./test-inc.pdf>] |(./test.aux) ) |(see the transcript file for additional information){/usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc |/dvips/cm-super/cm-super-t1.enc} |Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 43845 bytes). |-- |$ I can see the resulting file "test.pdf" that looks correct except for a non trivial aspect, i.e., all the different line types are the same (the same problem is of course present also in the "test-inc.pdf" file, directly produced by gnuplot) Summarizing, using "cairolatex pdf mono dashed" there are two problems, both introduced by 5.0 and not present in 4.6 1. in the PDF file, using the options "mono dashed" all the lines are of the same, undashed type 2. in the TeX file there is a minor error, that doesn't prevent the compilation of the source but it's still an error I add that these misbehaviors are not an artifact of the "test" command but has been observed first during _normal_ operations Thank you, g ps: I had almost forgot to check... also the "pdfcairo mono dashed" terminal is affected by the same regression, i.e., all the lines are not dashed