qt-texmacs not displaying documents well in ubuntu 9.10

[Philippe Joyez]

Hi all,

I have tried Texmacs, and I really love the equation editor - the absolute best I've used so far. However, I am really annoyed by some non-standard editing behavior of Texmacs, like not deleting a selection when you type over it. I saw in this list that some patching has been going on in this area, lately. I'm also looking forward to more standard dialog boxes, etc.  So, I decided to try compiling the Qt version and see how usable it could be. (Further down I'd like to implement some kind of exporting an equation to svg via the clipboard, in order to be able to use texmacs for making posters and presentations.)

So I grabbed the svn and compiled it on my ubuntu 9.10 AMD64.
As a result I can launch the program (apparently with no errors, at least on the console), but there is no page on the screen before I actually type something, and then, the width of the page grows with the text I type. I could load a previous document, and all words appear aligned left, one by line on a very narrow page... (most documents generate tons of errors and crash the program, though). I probably miss some crucial dependency, or I'm not using the appropriate version of something, but I can't figure it out alone, I'm afraid.

Can someone kindly point to me instructions for compiling a working qt-texmacs for linux, please?

[Massimiliano Gubinelli]

Hi,

On 3 nov. 09, at 15:05, Philippe Joyez wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I have tried Texmacs, and I really love the equation editor - the  
> absolute
> best I've used so far. However, I am really annoyed by some non-
> standard
> editing behavior of Texmacs, like not deleting a selection when you  
> type
> over it. I saw in this list that some patching has been going on in  
> this
> area, lately. I'm also looking forward to more standard dialog  
> boxes, etc.
> So, I decided to try compiling the Qt version and see how usable it  
> could
> be. (Further down I'd like to implement some kind of exporting an  
> equation
> to svg via the clipboard, in order to be able to use texmacs for  
> making
> posters and presentations.)
>
> So I grabbed the svn and compiled it on my ubuntu 9.10 AMD64.
> As a result I can launch the program (apparently with no errors, at  
> least on
> the console), but there is no page on the screen before I actually  
> type
> something, and then, the width of the page grows with the text I  
> type. I
> could load a previous document, and all words appear aligned left,  
> one by
> line on a very narrow page... (most documents generate tons of  
> errors and
> crash the program, though). I probably miss some crucial dependency,  
> or I'm
> not using the appropriate version of something, but I can't figure  
> it out
> alone, I'm afraid.
>

Hi,
  the bug you describe keep reappearing and it is probably due to a  
bad interaction of TeXmacs with the Qt libraries installed in your  
system.

Could you tell us the version of Qt you are using?

Unfortunately it is still not clear to us if this bug is due to  
TeXmacs or to Qt. In many installations the Qt version works very well  
but in some (included the last Qt 4.6 under Mac) we have this very  
unpleasant bug which keeps reappearing. We planned some efforts to  
provide within a month or two a beta version of TeXmacs/Qt which  
should be usable on most systems so we hope to remove this bug in this  
occasion.

Best
Massimiliano Gubinelli

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> qt-texmacs for linux, please?
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[Philippe Joyez]

Hi Massimiliano,

Qt version in Ubuntu 9.10 is strangely named 4.5.3really4.5.2-0ubuntu1....
Which versions are known to work?


Philippe

PS. Sorry for double posting previously.
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[Norbert Nemec]

I am running the same system:
    TeXmacs/Qt from SVN, (K)ubuntu 9.10 AMD64.

without any problems of the kind that you describe.

It might indeed be some kind of dependency problem, but I have no idea
what it might be.

Alternatively, you might want to try renaming the ~/.TeXmacs so all the
settings are created from scratch. I once had really strange problems
due to corrupted data in that directory.

Sorry, that I cannot be of more help. :-(




Philippe Joyez wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have tried Texmacs, and I really love the equation editor - the absolute
> best I've used so far. However, I am really annoyed by some non-standard
> editing behavior of Texmacs, like not deleting a selection when you type
> over it. I saw in this list that some patching has been going on in this
> area, lately. I'm also looking forward to more standard dialog boxes, etc.
> So, I decided to try compiling the Qt version and see how usable it could
> be. (Further down I'd like to implement some kind of exporting an equation
> to svg via the clipboard, in order to be able to use texmacs for making
> posters and presentations.)
>
> So I grabbed the svn and compiled it on my ubuntu 9.10 AMD64.
> As a result I can launch the program (apparently with no errors, at least on
> the console), but there is no page on the screen before I actually type
> something, and then, the width of the page grows with the text I type. I
> could load a previous document, and all words appear aligned left, one by
> line on a very narrow page... (most documents generate tons of errors and
> crash the program, though). I probably miss some crucial dependency, or I'm
> not using the appropriate version of something, but I can't figure it out
> alone, I'm afraid.
>
> Can someone kindly point to me instructions for compiling a working
> qt-texmacs for linux, please?
>
>  

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[Massimiliano Gubinelli]

Thanks.

On 3 nov. 09, at 18:07, texmacs.5.pjoyez@... wrote:

> Hi Massimiliano,
>
> Qt version in Ubuntu 9.10 is strangely named  
> 4.5.3really4.5.2-0ubuntu1....
> Which versions are known to work?
>

I'm developing in Qt 4.4 under Mac and I've also tested 4.4 under  
Linux and Windows which work fine. Joris tested Qt 4.6 beta/Cocoa on  
MacOSX 10.6 and it shows the problem. I remember that the problem  
showed up in some old linux installations which probably had some Qt  
version prior to 4.4 but I do not have access to this machine anymore.

Alvaro, Norbert?

It would be nice to have a list of installations for which TeXmacs  
works or show the canvas width bug. I've tried to track it down on Qt  
4.6 but it is elusive and I do not really understand what is going  
wrong. Can you reset your TeXmacs installation to see if Norber's  
suggestion works?

Thanks,
Massimiliano

>
> Philippe
>
> PS. Sorry for double posting previously.
>>
>
>
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[Philippe Joyez]

Norbert Nemec - Norbert.Nemec.list@... a écrit :

>
> I am running the same system:
>    TeXmacs/Qt from SVN, (K)ubuntu 9.10 AMD64.
>
> without any problems of the kind that you describe.
>
> It might indeed be some kind of dependency problem, but I have no idea
> what it might be.
>
> Alternatively, you might want to try renaming the ~/.TeXmacs so all
> the settings are created from scratch. I once had really strange
> problems due to corrupted data in that directory.
>
> Sorry, that I cannot be of more help. :-(
>

Thanks for the info Norbert.
Following your suggestion, I tried to remove my ~./TeXmacs folder. Then,
on the first try the application crashes while generating the fonts
(with errors), and on subsequent starts I get the same behavior as
before. But then the data in the folder is probably corrupted due to the
failure.

Just for curiosity, I do no more configuration than :

./configure --enable-qt
make
sudo make install
texmacs &

Are you doing the same or do you take extra steps?
What else? should we compare our config.log?

thanks in advance
Philippe



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[Norbert Nemec]

Maybe it is a problem of installed fonts? Do you have texlive installed?
I am not sure which packages texmacs would need. Probably
texmacs-fonts-recommended and texmacs-fonts-extra

Greetings,
Norbert



texmacs.5.pjoyez@... wrote:

>
>
> Norbert Nemec - Norbert.Nemec.list@... a écrit :
>>
>> I am running the same system:
>>    TeXmacs/Qt from SVN, (K)ubuntu 9.10 AMD64.
>>
>> without any problems of the kind that you describe.
>>
>> It might indeed be some kind of dependency problem, but I have no
>> idea what it might be.
>>
>> Alternatively, you might want to try renaming the ~/.TeXmacs so all
>> the settings are created from scratch. I once had really strange
>> problems due to corrupted data in that directory.
>>
>> Sorry, that I cannot be of more help. :-(
>>
> Thanks for the info Norbert.
> Following your suggestion, I tried to remove my ~./TeXmacs folder.
> Then, on the first try the application crashes while generating the
> fonts (with errors), and on subsequent starts I get the same behavior
> as before. But then the data in the folder is probably corrupted due
> to the failure.
>
> Just for curiosity, I do no more configuration than :
>
> ./configure --enable-qt
> make
> sudo make install
> texmacs &
>
> Are you doing the same or do you take extra steps?
> What else? should we compare our config.log?
>
> thanks in advance
> Philippe
>
>
>
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[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 10:32:16PM +0100, Gubinelli Massimiliano wrote:
> I'm developing in Qt 4.4 under Mac and I've also tested 4.4 under Linux
> and Windows which work fine. Joris tested Qt 4.6 beta/Cocoa on MacOSX
> 10.6 and it shows the problem.

Not quite. There are two problems:
  1) Under Snow Leopard, the screen in cleared blank when changing the focus.
  2) Under Linux, I still experience th window width bug from time to time.

--Joris


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[Philippe Joyez]

I all!

It works now. I decided to give it another try recently, and Qt-Texmacs now behaves normally, without doing anything special. I don't know weather it's due to a source code change or to an updated Ubuntu package, though.

Philippe