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bug #451: r666 breaks pgfmanual

Submitted by:  Henri Menke <hmenke>
Submitted on:  Sun Mar 1 02:24:20 2020  
 
Category: NonePriority: 5 - Normal
Severity: 5 - NormalStatus: None
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Open/Closed: Closed

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Thu Apr 16 20:48:06 2020, comment #13:

discussing the spam question separately. closing.

Karl Berry <karl>
Project Administrator
Wed Apr 15 22:31:11 2020, comment #12:

Gmail displays a following warning:

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Be careful with this message

This may be a spoofed message. The message claims to have been sent from your account, but Gmail couldn’t verify the actual source. Avoid clicking links or replying with sensitive information, unless you are sure you actually sent this message. (No need to reset your password, the real sender does not actually have access to your account!)
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Does that help?

Michal Hoftich <michal_h21>
Project Member
Wed Apr 15 22:27:48 2020, comment #11:

Thanks Karl. I will post details about the Gmail warning in the next message.

Michal Hoftich <michal_h21>
Project Member
Wed Apr 15 22:11:35 2020, comment #10:

I pushed those changes to TL for tonight.

Re spam, do (either of) you have a particular change in mind? Is there something specific in these warnings you are seeing? I cannot randomly guess what to do to pacify gmail, if it's possible at all.

Karl Berry <karl>
Project Administrator
Wed Apr 15 22:04:19 2020, comment #9:

Ah, I can see it. We patch the \tikzexternalize command before it had been loaded using \usetikzlibrary{external}. I've fixed that in the TeX4ht sources.

With this change and few changes in the .cfg file in TikZ repository, I was able to compile the manual.

Regargind the span warning - yes, I get them too. Is it possible to fix that, Karl?

Michal Hoftich <michal_h21>
Project Member
Wed Apr 15 09:03:32 2020, comment #8:

Also this platform constantly shows me errors, that my messages to this bugtracker are spam.

Henri Menke <hmenke>
Wed Apr 15 09:01:23 2020, comment #7:

Dear Michal,

Thanks for checking. I have also installed a minimal TL2020 in a container and can no longer reproduce. So I went ahead and dropped all the caches in the CI, but now I just get a different error:

https://travis-ci.com/github/pgf-tikz/pgf/jobs/319028342

Henri Menke <hmenke>
Wed Apr 15 08:26:05 2020, comment #6:

Hi Henri,

I've just installed TL 2020 and your example compiles correctly for me. So maybe the regression had been fixed already? I guess TL version used in you CI uses slightly older version of LaTeX kernel and it will be fixed in the following updates.

Michal Hoftich <michal_h21>
Project Member
Wed Apr 15 07:17:21 2020, comment #5:

Hi Henri,

thanks for the report. This document compiles correctly for me, but I am still on TL 2019. I guess that this is caused by some change in LaTeX kernel that was introduced in the latest releases. I will install TL 2020 and try to find what happened.

Best,
Michal

Michal Hoftich <michal_h21>
Project Member
Wed Apr 15 05:33:15 2020, comment #4:

I don't know whether this has been fixed but now with TeX Live 2020 an even simpler document immediately fails.
This crashes with
I'm sorry, but tex4ht has become completely unusable with TikZ recently and I might have to drop support for it if it continues to fail my CI.

Henri Menke <hmenke>
Mon Mar 2 07:59:14 2020, comment #3:

I've found the issue. We patch the `\usetikzlibrary` in `usepackage.4ht` for a better externalization support. I changed the following lines to get it work:

-\renewcommand\usetikzlibrary[1]{%
- \use:tikzlibrary{#1}%
- \find:externalize#1external\@nil%
+\pend:defI\usetikzlibrary{\find:externalize##1external\@nil}%

Michal Hoftich <michal_h21>
Project Member
Sun Mar 1 21:34:48 2020, comment #2:

I was able to construct a minimal example. This typesets correctly with latex, but causes a stack overflow with make4ht.

Henri Menke <hmenke>
Sun Mar 1 21:23:36 2020, comment #1:

Do you have a smaller example? I can test the pgfmanual tomorrow, but the following sample that loads the positioning library compiles without compilation errors for me:

It doesn't produce correct SVG though, it needs the alternative TikZ driver that is commented out.

The discussion why we patched the `\@onefilewithoptions` command can be found here: https://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/bugs/?448 and here: https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/issues/280

Michal Hoftich <michal_h21>
Project Member
Sun Mar 1 02:24:20 2020, original submission:

Generating the pgfmanual for tex4ht started failing recently with the error:

! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000].
\use:tikzlibrary #1->\use:tikzlibrary {#1
}\find:externalize #1external\@nil
l.32 \usetikzlibrary{positioning}

I traced this error back to r666 of tex4ht. Manually reverting the change, i.e. adding this code to the preamble removes the error.

\def\@onefilewithoptions#1[#2]{%
\let\:temp\@reset@ptions
\def\@reset@ptions{%
\let\@reset@ptions\:temp
\edef\TivhTcats{%
\catcode`:=\the\catcode`:%
\catcode`@=\the\catcode`@}%
\catcode`\:=11 \catcode`\@=11
\a:usepackage
\TivhTcats
}%
\def\:currentoptions{#2}
\:onefilewithoptions#1[#2]}

Henri Menke <hmenke>

 

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