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Michael Doob I looked briefly at the siunitx package. It seems like overkill, since your other suggestion solves the problem. It turns out that in math mode, inside an asymptote label, \text{} causes an asymptote compile error, while \textrm{} does not. Who knew? Anyway, you have solved my problem, thanks.
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correction : first part should be $\frac{100 \text{ft}}{\text{sec}}$
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I want to create a label, that in latex would be written as $\frac{100 \text{ft}}{\sec}$ The following code works okay, except that the "ft" and "sec" strings are written in math font, rather than text font: label("$\frac{100 ft}{sec}$",(0,0)); When trying the following code instead, I get an error message. label("$\frac{100 \text{ft}}{\text{sec}}$",(0,0)); When trying the following code instead, I get "textft" and "textsec" strings showing:. label("$\frac{100 \\text{ft}}{\\text{sec}}$",(0,0));
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I request that anyone authorized to do so, update this posted question with "... - Solved". I received an informative answer after posting "Understanding the apt-get build-dep process" at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/792517/understanding-the-apt-get-build-dep-process Basically, I initially misunderstood the apt-get build-dep process. The addendum at the end of my unix.stackexchange posted question details the specific steps that I took, inside a [Virtual Box 7 : Linux Mint 22 guest] to...
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Forgot to add that I am running Linux Mint 22.
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I was intrigued by John Bowman's suggestion that asymptote could be rebuilt from the source via apt-get build-dep asymptote ./configure make all make install Researching and experimenting, I have tentatively concluded that I need to first, temporarily, add an entry to /etc/apt/sources.list that looks something like deb-src file:/home/steve/Downloads/asymptote-3.00 where /home/steve/Downloads/asymptote-3.00 is the directory of the extracted source files. Unfortunately, trying many different variations...
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To ollydbg: I am just starting to study Asymptote's 3d capabilities, and I am curious. Is it possible to refine the asymptote code that you posted so that it looks more like the image that Rocky Bernstein is trying to reproduce. As a reference, the pertinent link is given below. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79386112/getting-a-asymptote-3d-graph-look-more-like-mathematicas
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When I execute asy against a 3d rendering, a pop-up screen flashes for a second, with what looks like messages or a picture, and then closes. Shown below is a sample file named tut03.asy that can be run to reproduce the situation. I am now running Asymptote 2.88 on Linux Mint 20. settings.outformat = "pdf"; settings.prc=false; size(5cm,5cm); import three; draw(unitsphere); The corresponding bash command is asy tut03.asy Questions: 1. Why is this happening on 3D renderings, but not 2D renderings?...
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To John Bowman Thanks very much for the support. I agree that I will be re-installing anyway soon, because of Linux Mint 20 EOL. I was actually doing this for the learning experience about upgrading only Asymptote. It is not surprising that I had dependency issues, since I had been using Asymptote from TexLive 2019. For me, the path of least resistance is to remove all of TexLive and re-install the latest TexLive version, because (apparently) all of the 3rd party app (like Asymptote) dependencies...
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I am not experienced in compiling myself, so I am tied to the pre-built asy binaries .
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Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately, the problem still persists. In Linux Mint 20, I just ran sudo apt install libgsl-dev and then re-executed the v2.96 asy. The problem persists. Then, re- investigating with sudo find / -type d -name "libgsl*" still resulted in /usr/share/doc/libgsl23 /usr/share/doc/libgslcblas0 As suggested, I could alternatively use an earlier version. What is the latest version, on or after v2.86, where I will not run into this problem? Alternatively, since sudo apt-install...
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My understanding is that the earliest asymptote that I can try, for the three module is v2.86. If the current problem can not be resolved without re-installing all of texlive, but v2.86 (or whatever the earliest acceptable version is that avoids hyperref clash) will solve the problem without any libgsl type of error - Please Advise. I can certainly live with v2.86, no problem, until I re-install everything re Linux Mint 20 EOL forcing me into Linux Mint 22.
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For what it's worth, I also tried installing texlive (latest) into a linux mint 20 virtualbox, to investigate, without messing up my current installation. For some reason, after 20 minutes, it had only done 4%, so I abandoned that approach.
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I downloaded the latest asymptote, which is version 2.96 to a /home/steve/ subdirectory, so that I could use asymptote's "three" module. After updating the PATH variable accordingly, I then, executed "asy" against a specific asy file. This resulted in the following error asy: error while loading shared libraries: libgsl.so.27: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Investigating, I navigated to https://mirror.ibcp.fr/pub/gnu/gsl/ and then downloaded gsl-2.7.tar.gz and then extracted...
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Thanks for the educational response, which completely answers my remaining question. For what it's worth, unless I am mistaken, in my testing, when I invoked Line 2, I always had Line 1 commented out. However, I was (still) invoking the line following Line 1, which is draw(q1, blue+1); draw(q2, red+1); So, either the above line caused 2D-3D output to be combined, or the problem is caused purely by my (obselete) use of Asymptote version 2.62. In any event, based on your response, with the 2D solution...
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It just occurred to me that I have underestimated the power of the evenodd approach. In unusual shading situations, you can manually identify a specific region to be shaded, and configure the path-1 ^^ path-2 specification appropriately for that specific region. So, the evenodd approach does generalize well.
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At the very end of this document is a minimum working example that I saved as mwe.tex. The preamble of mwe.tex loads the hyperref package, so that the corresponding error may be generated. My compile procedure is pdflatex mwe asy mwe-1.asy pdflatex mwe I am running Asymptote version 2.62 under TeX Live 2019/Debian, on Linux Mint 20.3 Una. I need to tell Asymptote to shade the region between two functions. mwe.tex contains one line commented as Line 1, and a second line commented as Line 2. The shading...
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Thanks to John Bowman for providing an illustrative example, limit.asy, that I could experiment with. In the attached image, the LHS represents the original code and the RHS represents the same code with all of the extend=true clauses changed to extend=false. Horizontally, the RHS yequals lines were truncated on the left by the Y axis and on the right by the position of the rightmost graphed dot. Vertically, the RHS xequal line was truncated at the solid blue line.
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Experimenting with Asymptote's XAxis and Tick functions, I discovered that in order to create a grid, I need to extend the ticks, rather than the axis. In the manual's documentation of various axis types (e.g. Top, BottomTop, YZero) it provides an extend=true option. However, while I know that this option does not extend the ticks, I haven't been able to reverse-engineer what this axis option actually does. What is the significance of specifying (extend=true) when using one of the xaxis function...
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To Charles Staats: I considered and rejected asypictureB. First, let me say that I think that your crafting asypictureB is great, beaten only by your tutorial, which I am studying. In general however, I prefer to avoid adopting any fork of Asymptote, unless I absolutely have to. In this case, given the fall-back strategy available, as a result of the Preventing Asy Re-Compiles Because of Inserted Asy Environments article, adopting an Asymptote fork is not needed. For what it's worth, unless/until...
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To John Bowman : Thanks for the reply, which has confused me. I like the idea of changing the title of the posted question. However, I can't find any way that the gui will permit me to change the title. Are you instead suggesting that I delete the entire posting, and re-submit an edited version, under a new title? I am unsure what you intend by a pull request to asy-latex.dtx. What is the procedure that I follow to make such a request? Also, what type of enhancement request would you consider reasonable?...
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See also Preventing Asy Re-Compiles Because of Inserted Asy Environments.
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The attempt suggested in the previous comment was to start with \renewcommand\asydir{asytmp}% in the preamble, and then place \renewcommand\asydir{asytmpa}% at the start of the Appendix. This approach has failed, because: Originally, before trying this, I had 42 *.asy workfiles generated in ../asytmp, and an additional 13 *.asy (appendix) workfiles also stored in ../asytmp. These appendix workfiles were numbered 43 through 55. I deleted the 13 appendix workfiles and appendix pdf-s from asytmp, and...
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Okay, thanks.
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To John Bowman: As a (pdf)latex user, I only want one (myfile.tex) source file that needs to be maintained, with the myfile-*.asy workfiles auto generated. The internal numbering is relevant to the latex user for the specific scenario that I originally described. That is, if I go into the middle of myfile.tex, which has many begin{asy}...\end{asy} clauses, and insert a new such clause, all of the subsequent begin{asy}...\end{asy} clauses, have to be recompiled because of the disruption to the numbering...
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I use inline asymptote code in multiple places, within (for example) myfile.tex. Then, the pdflatex command creates myfile-1.asy, myfile-2.asy, ... I would like to alter this naming scheme. For example, suppose that I add an appendix as a separate chapter at the end of myfile.tex. Further suppose that I then add inline asymptote code, in multiple places, within the appendix. Also suppose that in myfile.tex, prior to the appendix, I have created inline asymptote code in 20 different places. Then,...
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Thanks to John Bowman for the interesting reply. Now I know how to self-investigate any subsequent questions in this area.
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I am running Asymptote:TexLive v2.62 under Linux Mint. In the manual, on page 105, near the bottom, in a loop, the Pen(i) function is used, where (i) is an integer. This function is being used to control colors. Experimenting, I found that this function is independent of the (imported) graph module. Is the Pen(i) specification documented anywhere? Specifically, is there a list that shows which color corresponds to which (single) integer i. None of the pen functions that I found in the manual correspond...
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I am running Asymptote:TexLive v2.62 under Linux Mint. Excerpting from p99 of the manual: Custom axis types can be created by following the examples in the module graph.asy. One can easily override the default values for the standard axis types: However, I searched for graph.asy and found only $ sudo find /usr/share/ -type f -name "graph.asy" [sudo] password for steve: /usr/share/asymptote/graph.asy $ When I examined the corresponding graph.asy file, I found it to be a specification file, rather...
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Thanks to John Bowman for the response.
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Additional Information I resolved the config.asy error by adding the import settings line to the start of the file, as shown below: import settings; dir="asytmp"; However, while asy tutorial-1.asy now works okay, asy *.asy still fails. Apparently asymptote is able to search for a specific file name in an alternate directory, but can not search for multiple file names in an alternate directory.
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I am running Asymptote:TexLive under Linux Mint. I have decided to start locating the asymptote (.asy, .pdf) files in a work directory. The directory will always be ./asytmp/ (i.e. the asytmp subdirectory relative to the directory that contains the *.tex file). My Latex file contains \renewcommand\asydir{asytmp}% This works well. That is, the pdflatex command correctly places the inline *.asy files in the ./asytmp/ subdirectory, and correctly looks for the corresponding asymptote-inline *.pdf files...
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To Vladamir Lomov : Interesting suggestion, thanks. However, that's a little too complicated for me. To John Bowman: Thanks for the specifics. Do I first need to uninstall the existing Asymptote distribution? If so, how do I do that? If not, does this mean that your instructions will install version 2.62 right on top of the existing version? That is, will I need to alter the path? Will the existing asy executable be overridden? Alternatively, is it harmless to have both versions coexist, with my...
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I'm now running Fedora 30. From a previous Fedora distribution, I installed Texlive 2018, which includes Asymptote. I found the /usr/local/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/asymptote directory. I would like to gracefully upgrade my Asymptote to explore whether the bug mentioned in the following link is now fixed: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/466170/how-to-troubleshoot-unwanted-white-spaces-smartly My preference is to only upgrade Asymptote without upgrading the rest of my Texlive distribution. Is...
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Good catch! I changed the range from -5pi/4 , -3pi/4 ...to -4.9pi/4, -3.1pi/4 and it executed okay. So, yes, this probably is just a numerical precision glitch.
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Below are 3 mwe's. In the first, the [(-5pi)/4,(-3pi)/4] range is specially handled, using an abs(...) wrapper. Executing "asy mwe_01.asy", the file runs okay. Contrast this with mwe_02, which transfers the [(-5pi)/4,(-3pi)/4] range to the f1 function, removing the abs(...) wrapper. Result below: mwe_02.asy: 3.19: runtime: Floating point exception (core dumped) mwe_03, which is the same as mwe_02, except the troublesome range has been translated to positive values, generated the same runtime error....
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