[OS X TeX] figures in plain TeX
juan tolosa
juantolo at me.com
Wed Jul 13 22:05:07 EDT 2016
Unfortunately, there seems to be no pdftex.def file, neither in the older distribution file (2015) nor in the present one (2016) :(
juan
> On Jul 13, 2016, at 9:56 PM, juan tolosa <juantolo at me.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you, Ross,
> I must confess I am not skilled at “hacking” input code. I will try your first advise though, it seems doable given my very limited skills.
>
> I have been considering more and more the switch from plain TeX to LaTeX. The problem is, I have scores (a lot!) of files in plain TeX that I have been produced over the years, by me, and/or shamelessly borrowed from more skilled programmers; an example: code that produces a set of problems with hints and answers, so that the hints and the answers are afterwards printed separately. Even more basic things, like matrix commands (\pmatrix{…} and the like) are not recognized by LaTeX, and are not easily translatable. So, I am still struggling with plain TeX.
>
> Best,
> Juan
>
>> On Jul 13, 2016, at 6:00 PM, Ross Moore <ross.moore at mq.edu.au <mailto:ross.moore at mq.edu.au>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Juan,
>>
>>> On Jul 14, 2016, at 7:28 AM, juan tolosa <juantolo at me.com <mailto:juantolo at me.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am baffled. Since I joined the Mac OS TeX community, I was given a method for processing pictures in plain TeX, which has been working seamlessly—until today.
>>> I had transitioned from TeXtures, which used the \special{…} command for inserting pictures, to a more transparent, and more universally accepted method.
>>>
>>> In particular, I used
>>> \input miniltx.tex
>>> and next, something like
>>> \RequirePackage{graphicx}
>>> and then I inserted pictures using, for example
>>> \includegraphics[height=60mm]{RubiKo}
>>>
>>> Today, to my surprise, I found the method is not working anymore.
>>>
>>> As soon as the \input miniltx.tex is typeset, I get an error. The console displays:
>>>
>>> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (TeX Live 2016) (preloaded format=pdftex)
>>> \write18 enabled.
>>> entering extended mode
>>> (./PicturesInPlainTex.tex
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/plain/graphics-pln/miniltx.tex)
>>
>> miniltx.tex doesn’t define everything from LaTeX.
>> It only gives you enough to do some basic things.
>> The more LaTeX packages that you try to use, the more
>> you’ll encounter things that LaTeX uses, but haven’t been supported in miniltx.
>> So you need to be prepared to write snippets of patch coding when this occurs.
>>
>>
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics-cfg/graphics.cfg)
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics-def/pdftex.def
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/infwarerr.sty)
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ltxcmds.sty)
>>> /usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics-def/pdftex.def:1569: Unde
>>> fined control sequence.
>>> l.1569 \@ifpackageloaded
>>> {pst-pdf}% hv 20160630
>>
>> The graphics-def/ bundle is very, very new — see that date: 2016-06-30 !!!
>> It is about uniformising the different .def files for different processing engines.
>>
>> Here it seems to be calling a revised pdftex.def which is now checking
>> whether some other package pst-pdf has been loaded.
>> Unfortunately the \@ifpackageloaded command isn’t supported in miniltx.tex .
>>
>> What to do?
>>
>> If you have an older distribution available, find the pdftex.def file from there.
>> Put a copy into the local directory where you are processing your job.
>> Hopefully you will have no further problem — this time!
>>
>>
>> If not, then you’ll need to do some hacking.
>> Take a copy of the actual pdftex.def to your working directory.
>> Look inside it for how \@ifpackageloaded is being used;
>> that is, how many arguments does it take?
>> Comment-out those lines.
>> Test your job. How much further does it get?
>> Do this kind of thing for each such problem.
>>
>> Eventually you should be left with something that works —this time!
>>
>>
>> Even more eventually, you should switch to using the full LaTeX.
>> Appreciate it’s power and flexibility, and all the good work that others put into it.
>>
>>
>> Or maybe one of the LaTeX developers will consider the use-case
>> of \input miniltx.tex when further developing graphics-def .
>> That won’t help you today, but maybe in the near future.
>>
>>
>>> ?
>>> Process aborted
>>>
>>> Does anyone have an advice?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Juan
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Ross
>>
>>
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