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Hello,

This question is rather about the LaTeX format that is being extensively used in the documentation and the files that are found in the svn repository. I apologize in advance as I am a newbie in LaTeX and all I want is to view the documentation included in the TELEMAC v6p3r2 package that I checked out from the puvlic SVN.

Can you please share a foolproof method to view the .tex files included in the package? I have MiKTeX installed on my Windows 7 computer. I tried with several different GUI editors and I am not able to build or compile most of the documents included in the v6p3r2 package.

See the error messages in the log file, attached.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Hi,

I have the same question.
avni's question interests at least two persons.

Question asked in august ->> no answer... any suggestion to help us compiling TeX documentation?

Thank in advance,

Hi,

Yes - intresting question. I also wondered why there is no simpler way to view the documentation, with pdf files for instance? It would at least allow non LaTeX people (a lot of users i guess) to have a look at the documentation.

Thanks in advance,
PL

Hello,

The LaTex was chosen because from it, we can use python scripts to automatically generate wiki content, www content and PDF, particularly through our automated validation system (Jenkins). The PDF documentation will come at some point, but we are just not ready yet.

For user participation, we are looking at opening the wikis in edition mode.

Hope this answer the question.

Sébastien.

Hello all,

This topic has been inactive for a while and I wanted to share with you a simple solution I found to view the latex files. A website called sharelatex* provides latex editing/compiling services for free to individuals. I was able to compile a few latex files from the telemac documentation with very minor modifications. I thought it could be useful for others, too.

* link: www.sharelatex.com/

In another note, it is sad that the wiki is still not activated after almost a year from Sebastien's comment above.

Very usefull -- thank you.

Very sorry for the delay with the wiki -- HR Wallingford seems to be on its own with this site (as well as all the others: doxygen, svn, cue, cis, www, etc), hence very limited time/budget to maintain and develop further.
Still, there is progress ... (behind the curtains) and we remain hopeful of a larger participation from the reste of the consortium.

Thank you for your support.

Sébastien.

I occasionally found this problem too. I didn't dig into it any deeply, however I share my experience nonetheless.

I came up with the intuition that, at typesetting time, the LaTeX editor bumps into issues of read/write permissions within a svn-bound folder. I have then copied the folder of the documentation (say documentation/telemac2d) on a separate location outside the telemac tree. Also, I copied the folder called 'documentation/data' next to it. This is because the tex source refers to additional style information stored there, using a relative path (hence the importance of maintaining the relative position of the folders).

Doing this way I managed to typset a pdf document. At most I had to force continuing a couple of times. Some figures were missing but, I presume, circumstantially because their address was broken, in my case at least.

I am sure that there's a smarter and more thorough way to do this. However, as a workaround it was pragmatic enough to deliver something to read.

I use TeXWorks.