* xml parsing
@ 2008-11-28 8:43 Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-11-28 9:22 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-11-28 9:23 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Thomas A. Schmitz @ 2008-11-28 8:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi all, Hans,
this is a terribly inaccurate bug report, and I apologize for its
form, but it's something you and other people might want to look at.
Or maybe I should change my files, I don't know. Here comes:
SUMMARY
The new mkiv xml parser sometimes "eats" parts of my xml files when
they are typeset. It appears to skip parts of text between two tags.
DESCRIPTION
I have no minimal example, just a description: for my lectures, I have
defined a counter to tell me when I want to show the next slide:
\definelabel[SlideNumber][headstyle=normal,way=bytext]
\define\sln{\color[red]{ [\nextSlideNumber]}}
For my xml files, I have wrapped this into a xml command:
\startxmlsetups xml:sln
\sln
\stopxmlsetups
This works wonderfully in most cases. To make my source file more
readable, I usually code
foo
<sln/>
bar
In this case, the xml parser SOMETIMES (not reproducibly,
unfortunately) skips the "bar" part up to the next paragraph <p> tag.
When I take away the line break and write
foo <sln/> bar
the "bar" part appears normally.
ANECDOTE
I write my lectures in xml so I can put them on a website for my
students, and I deliver them from typeset notes. This happened to me
last Tuesday. I had typeset and printed my notes, and then while
lecturing realized that an entire paragraph was missing. I could ad-
lib it, but this is not something you want to happen at an important
job-talk...
ALl best
Thomas
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* Re: xml parsing
2008-11-28 8:43 xml parsing Thomas A. Schmitz
@ 2008-11-28 9:22 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-11-28 10:16 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-11-28 9:23 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Wolfgang Schuster @ 2008-11-28 9:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi Thomas,
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz
<Thomas.Schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> Hi all, Hans,
>
> this is a terribly inaccurate bug report, and I apologize for its
> form, but it's something you and other people might want to look at.
> Or maybe I should change my files, I don't know. Here comes:
>
> SUMMARY
>
> The new mkiv xml parser sometimes "eats" parts of my xml files when
> they are typeset. It appears to skip parts of text between two tags.
>
> DESCRIPTION
>
> I have no minimal example, just a description: for my lectures, I have
> defined a counter to tell me when I want to show the next slide:
>
> \definelabel[SlideNumber][headstyle=normal,way=bytext]
>
> \define\sln{\color[red]{ [\nextSlideNumber]}}
>
> For my xml files, I have wrapped this into a xml command:
>
> \startxmlsetups xml:sln
> \sln
> \stopxmlsetups
>
> This works wonderfully in most cases. To make my source file more
> readable, I usually code
>
> foo
> <sln/>
> bar
>
> In this case, the xml parser SOMETIMES (not reproducibly,
> unfortunately) skips the "bar" part up to the next paragraph <p> tag.
> When I take away the line break and write
>
> foo <sln/> bar
>
> the "bar" part appears normally.
>
> ANECDOTE
>
> I write my lectures in xml so I can put them on a website for my
> students, and I deliver them from typeset notes. This happened to me
> last Tuesday. I had typeset and printed my notes, and then while
> lecturing realized that an entire paragraph was missing. I could ad-
> lib it, but this is not something you want to happen at an important
> job-talk...
I don't if this will help you but you can try the following three changes.
1. Change the defintion of \sln
\define\sln{\startcolor[red][\nextSlideNumber]\stopcolor}
2. Put a \relax after the xml setup for \sln
\startxmlsetups xml:sln
\sln\relax
\stopxmlsetups
3. define \SlideNumber as TeX counter
\newcount\SlideNumber
\def\resetSlideNumber
{\global\SlideNumber\zerocount\relax}
\def\incrementSlideNumber
{\global\advance\SlideNumber\plusone\relax}
\def\currentSlideNumber
{\number\SlideNumber\relax}
\def\nextSlideNumber
{\incrementSlideNumber
\currentSlideNumber}
(4. Switch the system or TeX installation, helped on my former
Windows installation with font problems)
Wolfgang
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* Re: xml parsing
2008-11-28 8:43 xml parsing Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-11-28 9:22 ` Wolfgang Schuster
@ 2008-11-28 9:23 ` Hans Hagen
2008-11-28 9:43 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2008-11-28 9:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Hi all, Hans,
>
> this is a terribly inaccurate bug report, and I apologize for its
> form, but it's something you and other people might want to look at.
> Or maybe I should change my files, I don't know. Here comes:
in such cases you run into lookahead of macros; adding a \relax helps
\startxmlsetups xml:sln
\sln\relax
\stopxmlsetups
of so; let me know if this solves the problem
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* Re: xml parsing
2008-11-28 9:23 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2008-11-28 9:43 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
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From: Thomas A. Schmitz @ 2008-11-28 9:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Nov 28, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> in such cases you run into lookahead of macros; adding a \relax helps
>
> \startxmlsetups xml:sln
> \sln\relax
> \stopxmlsetups
>
> of so; let me know if this solves the problem
Hi Hans,
thanks for answering this inaccurate report. No, adding \relax to the
xmlsetup did not solve the problem. Maybe I should try grouping or
sprinkling around \relax in other places of my definitions?
Just btw: I reported a similar problem this spring: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080324.212853.4a4abc6c.en.html
and realized later that again linebreaks are the culprit. From what I
have understood, this is basically impossible: mkiv xml parsing uses
the LPEG mechanism which doesn't see linebreaks as anything special.
Nevertheless, I have these cases where introducing a linebreak makes
elements from the xml tree disappear, removing it makes everything
work. I'll keep an eye on it (and am aware that there may not be an
immediate solution).
Best
Thomas
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* Re: xml parsing
2008-11-28 9:22 ` Wolfgang Schuster
@ 2008-11-28 10:16 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-11-28 11:02 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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From: Thomas A. Schmitz @ 2008-11-28 10:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Nov 28, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> I don't if this will help you but you can try the following three
> changes.
>
>
> 1. Change the defintion of \sln
>
> \define\sln{\startcolor[red][\nextSlideNumber]\stopcolor}
>
>
> 2. Put a \relax after the xml setup for \sln
>
> \startxmlsetups xml:sln
> \sln\relax
> \stopxmlsetups
>
>
> 3. define \SlideNumber as TeX counter
>
> \newcount\SlideNumber
>
> \def\resetSlideNumber
> {\global\SlideNumber\zerocount\relax}
>
> \def\incrementSlideNumber
> {\global\advance\SlideNumber\plusone\relax}
>
> \def\currentSlideNumber
> {\number\SlideNumber\relax}
>
> \def\nextSlideNumber
> {\incrementSlideNumber
> \currentSlideNumber}
>
>
> (4. Switch the system or TeX installation, helped on my former
> Windows installation with font problems)
>
>
> Wolfgang
Hi Wolfgang,
thanks for your suggestions! I tried solutions 1-3, but I still get
the same result; the paragraph is skipped (hey, what about #3: are you
leading me into temptation to use low-level code?!). #4: I have tried
both the minimals and a fully updated TeXLive on OS X; I will tomorrow
check if the same thing happens on my linux installation.
Unfortunately, the file is pretty long and contains some additional
modules and fonts, or I'd send it to you to see if it compiles OK on
your installation (though: could I imagine switching to Windows? No, I
couldn't...)
All best, and thanks a lot
Thomas
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* Re: xml parsing
2008-11-28 10:16 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
@ 2008-11-28 11:02 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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From: Wolfgang Schuster @ 2008-11-28 11:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz
<thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>
> On Nov 28, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
>> I don't if this will help you but you can try the following three
>> changes.
>>
>>
>> 1. Change the defintion of \sln
>>
>> \define\sln{\startcolor[red][\nextSlideNumber]\stopcolor}
>>
>>
>> 2. Put a \relax after the xml setup for \sln
>>
>> \startxmlsetups xml:sln
>> \sln\relax
>> \stopxmlsetups
\startxmlsetups xml:sln
\sln\space\ignorespaces
\stopxmlsetups
>> 3. define \SlideNumber as TeX counter
>>
>> \newcount\SlideNumber
>>
>> \def\resetSlideNumber
>> {\global\SlideNumber\zerocount\relax}
>>
>> \def\incrementSlideNumber
>> {\global\advance\SlideNumber\plusone\relax}
>>
>> \def\currentSlideNumber
>> {\number\SlideNumber\relax}
>>
>> \def\nextSlideNumber
>> {\incrementSlideNumber
>> \currentSlideNumber}
>>
>>
>> (4. Switch the system or TeX installation, helped on my former
>> Windows installation with font problems)
>>
>>
>> Wolfgang
>
> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> thanks for your suggestions! I tried solutions 1-3, but I still get
> the same result; the paragraph is skipped (hey, what about #3: are you
> leading me into temptation to use low-level code?!).
There is nothing wrong with low level code if you know what you do
*and* counters are faster (but you won't notice the difference here :)
> #4: I have tried
> both the minimals and a fully updated TeXLive on OS X; I will tomorrow
> check if the same thing happens on my linux installation.
> Unfortunately, the file is pretty long and contains some additional
> modules and fonts, or I'd send it to you to see if it compiles OK on
> your installation (though: could I imagine switching to Windows? No, I
> couldn't...)
You could send me your files. I switched from windows to Mac
and most of my problems disappeared.
Wolfgang
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