Failing to extend LaTeX with pstricks. Ideas?

[Gabriel Rodriguez]

I have successfully added cards to Mnemosyne with LaTeX formatting for basic inline mathematical equations (using MacTeX install).

Now I would like to add some nice plots so I researched the use of the pstricks package.

Per the various docs I found, I updated the LaTeX preamble in Mnemosyne/config.py with:

\usepackage{pdftricks}
\begin{psinputs}
  \usepackage{pstricks}
  \usepackage{multido}
\end{psinputs}

I also updated the LaTeX command to include the switch for shell-execution:

latex = "/Library/TeX/texbin/latex -output-format=dvi -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape"

I opened some LaTeX formatted cards in Mnemosyne, and they open with no problem. To test the new package, I create a card front with:

<latex>A Grid!</latex>

and a card back with :

<latex>
  \begin{pdfpic}
    \begin{pspicture} [showgrid=true] (3,3)
      \pscircle[linecolor=blue,doubleline=true,doublecolor=red,doublesep=12pt] (1.5,1.5){1.5}
      \pscircle*[linecolor=green] (1.5,1.5){O.25}
    \end{pspicture}
  \end{pdfpic}
</latex>

The example is from LaTex Graphics Companion by Goosens et al.

When I preview the card, I don't get any errors, just a blank card back.

I considered that maybe shell-escape isn't working because it is being invoded by Mnemosyne and not by me, so at my peril I ran sudo Mnemosyne but there was no change.

Any ideas?

Also, what is the working directory used for LaTeX compilation? Perhaps there is a log file I can dissect.

[Peter Bienstman]

Hi,

I'm on my phone right now, but the log files are in default.db_media/_latex. They will help debugging the issue.

I assume the pstricks package is installed?

Cheers,

Peter

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Sent: Monday, 21 January 2019 02:48
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[Gabriel Rodriguez]

Thank's for providing the work directory.  

It looks like it is indeed a problem on the LaTeX side.  

Paraphrasing, the error is "ps2eps command not found" which is odd because it is in /texbin which is in my path. 

I'll bang my head for awhile before asking on a LaTeX forum.