[newbie] problem producing pslatex output-file



On 2012-06-13, Hugo Coolens <coolens at kahosl.be> wrote:

> 2. the file acl0.tex is incomplete, the following ending lines are missing:
>   \end{picture}%
> \endgroup
> \endinput

I can't confirm this. I'm working w/ Maxima 5.27+commits + Gnuplot 4.7
patchlevel 0. The TeX output file has the lines you show above.

> I think this is a bug in maxima as I get the same error with maxima 5.22.1
> and with wxmaxima 0.8.5

I doubt it, I guess; Maxima creates a Gnuplot script and then punts to
Gnuplot to actually create the output.

You can capture Maxima's Gnuplot output as follows:

    set_plot_option ([plot_format, gnuplot]);

and then $HOME/maxout.gnuplot contains the plotting commands. If you try
to execute the plotting script in Gnuplot directly, outside of Maxima,
do you get a valid TeX output?

best

Robert Dodier