<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Aha! With \listfiles I found that, for reasons unknown, I had an older version of asymptote.sty, from 2011, in <span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/asymptote</span>.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Removing that whole folder allowed use of the current version, asymptote.sty 2016/11/26 v1.33. Which allowed successful typesetting.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you!</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 20 Nov2017, at 10:33 AM, Herbert Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" class="">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Nov 20, 2017, at 9:08 AM, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">On 19 Nov2017, at 4:51 PM, Herbert Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" class="">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Nov 19, 2017, at 3:34 PM, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">I have he asymptotemk engine active in TeXShop 3.89. I copied file ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/Inactive/Sample.tex to my ~/Documents folder and tried to typeset that copy Sample.tex using the asymptotemk engine.<br class=""><br class="">I get the error(s) indicated in the console output extract shown below. What’s wrong?<br class=""><br class="">Transcript written on sampleAsy.log.<br class="">===========Latexmk: Missing input file: 'sampleAsy-1.pdf' from line<br class=""> 'Package asymptote Warning: file `sampleAsy-1.pdf' not found on input line 71.'<br class="">Latexmk: Missing input file: 'sampleAsy-1.pdf' from line<br class=""> 'Package asymptote Warning: file `sampleAsy-1.pdf' not found on input line 71.'<br class="">===========Latexmk: Missing input file: 'sampleAsy-2.pdf' from line<br class=""> 'Package asymptote Warning: file `sampleAsy-2.pdf' not found on input line 87.'<br class="">Latexmk: Missing input file: 'sampleAsy-2.pdf' from line<br class=""> 'Package asymptote Warning: file `sampleAsy-2.pdf' not found on input line 87.'<br class="">===========Latexmk: Missing input file: 'sampleAsy-3.pdf' from line<br class=""> 'Package asymptote Warning: file `sampleAsy-3.pdf' not found on input line 111.'<br class="">Latexmk: Missing input file: 'sampleAsy-3.pdf' from line<br class=""> 'Package asymptote Warning: file `sampleAsy-3.pdf' not found on input line 111.'<br class="">Latexmk: Log file says output to 'sampleAsy.pdf'<br class="">Rule 'cusdep asy pdf sampleAsy-3': File changes, etc:<br class=""> Changed files, or newly in use since previous run(s):<br class=""> 'sampleAsy-3.asy'<br class=""> Non-existent destination files:<br class=""> 'sampleAsy-3.pdf'<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">The Sample/tex file found in ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/Inactive/Asymptote (not directly in the Inactive folder) is quite old and it appears that `asy` has changed a bit over that time period and is having a problem compiling one of the figures (the one in sampleAsy-2). Since that failed the asmyptotemk engine quits.<br class=""><br class="">If you want to test the asymptotemk engine get the latexusage.tex file found in `~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/Inactive/Latexmk/platexmkrc samples/for asymptote' (without the quotes of course) and change the engine to asymptotemk and compile. YOu might want to copy that whole folder to your desktop and use that file along with the associated platexmkrc file in that folder and typeset it directly.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">From ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/Inactive/Latexmk/platexmkrc samples/for asymptote I copied both files latexusage.tex and platexmkrc to a folder of mine. When in TeXShopI typeset latexusage.tex with asymptotemk, I get an error:<br class=""><br class=""> ./latexusage-1.tex: 29: Undefined control sequence.<br class=""> \ASYaligned ..7}\setbox \ASYbox \hbox {\ASYdimen<br class=""> =\ht \ASYbox \advance \ASY…<br class=""> l.29 …23941,60.549297)(-0.500000,-5.00000){$A$)<br class=""> %<br class="">I then continued in batch mode (q). The .pdf produced was defective in several ways. (I’ll try to attach the pdf, but as I recall the mailing list excises those.)<br class=""><br class=""><latexusage.pdf><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Howdy,<br class=""><br class="">I certainly don't know why you are having a problem since it compiles fine here. Please put the line \listfiles at the top of the file and compile again. Then check against this list:<br class=""><br class="">*File List*<br class=""> article.cls 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class<br class=""> size12.clo 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)<br class="">asymptote.sty 2016/11/26 v1.33 Asymptote style file for LaTeX<br class=""> keyval.sty 2014/10/28 v1.15 key=value parser (DPC)<br class=""> ifthen.sty 2014/09/29 v1.1c Standard LaTeX ifthen package (DPC)<br class=""> color.sty 2016/07/10 v1.1e Standard LaTeX Color (DPC)<br class=""> color.cfg 2016/01/02 v1.6 sample color configuration<br class=""> pdftex.def 2017/06/24 v1.0g Graphics/color driver for pdftex<br class="">graphicx.sty 2017/06/01 v1.1a Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)<br class="">graphics.sty 2017/06/25 v1.2c Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)<br class=""> trig.sty 2016/01/03 v1.10 sin cos tan (DPC)<br class="">graphics.cfg 2016/06/04 v1.11 sample graphics configuration<br class=""> ifpdf.sty 2017/03/15 v3.2 Provides the ifpdf switch<br class=""> ifxetex.sty 2010/09/12 v0.6 Provides ifxetex conditional<br class="">catchfile.sty 2016/05/16 v1.7 Catch the contents of a file (HO)<br class="">infwarerr.sty 2016/05/16 v1.4 Providing info/warning/error messages (HO)<br class=""> ltxcmds.sty 2016/05/16 v1.23 LaTeX kernel commands for general use (HO)<br class="">etexcmds.sty 2016/05/16 v1.6 Avoid name clashes with e-TeX commands (HO)<br class="">ifluatex.sty 2016/05/16 v1.4 Provides the ifluatex switch (HO)<br class="">supp-pdf.mkii<br class="">epstopdf-base.sty 2016/05/15 v2.6 Base part for package epstopdf<br class=""> grfext.sty 2016/05/16 v1.2 Manage graphics extensions (HO)<br class="">kvdefinekeys.sty 2016/05/16 v1.4 Define keys (HO)<br class="">kvoptions.sty 2016/05/16 v3.12 Key value format for package options (HO)<br class="">kvsetkeys.sty 2016/05/16 v1.17 Key value parser (HO)<br class="">pdftexcmds.sty 2017/03/19 v0.25 Utility functions of pdfTeX for LuaTeX (HO)<br class="">epstopdf-sys.cfg 2010/07/13 v1.3 Configuration of (r)epstopdf for TeX Live<br class="">epstopdf.cfg<br class=""> ***********<br class=""><br class="">for old file versions. Also check the log file to make sure you are not getting interference from an old copy of a file in your personal texmf tree.<br class=""><br class="">PS: You can either use the asymptotemk engine or, with that platexmkrc file in the same folder, simply us the pdflatexmk engine. It should compile either way.<br class=""><br class="">Good Luck,<br class=""><br class="">Herb Schulz<br class="">(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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