Re: texlive and asymptote

["Michele B." <ssj2micvm@gmail.com>]

On 8/23/07, Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
> Michele B. wrote:
> > On 8/22/07, Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:07 +0200, Michele B. wrote:
> >>
> >> > I am sorry if this is not the right place to post but I dont know
> >> > where else I should post it. I am using texlive 2007-11 from the
> >> > repositories. Just updated two days ago all texlive. When I pdftex my
> >> > texfile with included some asymptote environments it generates a wrong
> >> > *.asy file I guess. This is the beginning of the generated asy file:
> >>
> >> Can you please provide us with a minimal example file. I just tried
> >> latexusage.tex that comes with asymptote, and that works with both
> >> latex and pdflatex.
> >>
> > Sure, sorry. I noticed another thing but I dont know if it might be
> > useful. The latex and pdflatex and pdftex are all links to
> > /usr/bin/pdftex. Dont know if that is normal.
>
> Nowadays this is normal. This allows things like microtype.sty to be used
> in conjunction with latex (ie, dvi-production).
Oh ok thanks.

> > Here is an example latex
> > file which gives the same error:
> >
> > \documentclass[a4paper,twoside]{book}
> > \usepackage{ngerman}
> > \usepackage[latin 1]{inputenc}
> > \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
>
> I am pretty sure that this is the problem. Essentially you are lying to
> latex. You want a dvi-file but you load the driver for pdf-production.
> Leave out this option (in most cases graphicx the right thing
> automatically) and your problems will most likely go away (sorry, I cannot
> test it right now).
>
> > \usepackage{graphics}
>
> Unnecessary since it is loaded by graphicx.sty.
>
> cheerio
> ralf
One point for you :) For the dvi it works now. But if I want to
generate the pdf it doesn't work. With or without the pdftex option
for graphicx. As before: the first compilation works. Then when I run
asymptote on it there is the same error as I described. The asy fails
with:

testfile.asy: 4.16: invalid token '\'
testfile.asy: 4.17: syntax error
error: could not load module 'testfile.asy'

Why that?

Thanks in the meantime

Michele