Was the issue that Andrew describes fixed with ticket 36529? I still seem 
to have a similar issue with the view command.

Best wishes,

Anne

On Tuesday, December 12, 2023 at 7:36:52 PM UTC-8 John H Palmieri wrote:

> Please add comments to that ticket.
>
> On Tuesday, December 12, 2023 at 6:15:31 PM UTC-8 Andrew wrote:
>
>> Thanks John. 
>>
>> Yes, I think you are right because this PR is about exactly this issue 
>> and, more importantly, it adds the code that I want to brutalise. I missed 
>> this when used git blame to look for recent changes to sage.misc.latex. 
>> This fits as view() was working without issues for me a month or so ago and 
>> this was only merged at the end of October.
>>
>> Since https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/36529 is already merged is 
>> it too late to add a comment on the ticket?
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday 13 December 2023 at 12:30:03 pm UTC+11 John H Palmieri wrote:
>>
>>> Could this be related to https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/36529?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, December 12, 2023 at 3:50:55 PM UTC-8 Andrew wrote:
>>>
>>>> Playing around with this a little more, I think that this is a 
>>>> bug/timing issue in sage.misc.latex.py (or in subprocess.run, or a mac 
>>>> oddity since it only started happening recently). 
>>>>
>>>> What seems to be happening is that the generated PDF file, output_file, 
>>>> is being deleted before the viewer is able to open it. Specifically, if I 
>>>> add time.sleep(2) before the tmp.cleanup  then the viewer opens as 
>>>> expected.
>>>>
>>>>     def run_viewer():
>>>>         run([viewer, output_file], capture_output=True)
>>>>         time.sleep(1)    ## adding this, together with import time, 
>>>> fixes the problem
>>>>         tmp.cleanup()
>>>>
>>>> (This around line 1957 of latex.py.) Certainly this explains my 
>>>> experience of the command working sometimes and failing at other times. On 
>>>> the other hand, it is a little strange because subprocess.run is supposed 
>>>> to wait for the process to finish. A shorter example that exhibits the 
>>>> problem, at least on the two macs that I have available, is
>>>>
>>>>     sage: view(crystals.LSPaths( 
>>>> RootSystem(['A',4]).weight_space().basis()[1] ) )
>>>>
>>>> If people agree that this is a bug then I am happy to post a fix.
>>>>
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Monday 11 December 2023 at 4:35:59 pm UTC+11 Andrew wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to view crystal graphs from inside sage, and I am going a 
>>>>> little nuts. Sometimes view(...) works as I expect but most of the time 
>>>>> it 
>>>>> doesn't, and I see the error message:
>>>>>
>>>>> The document “sage.pdf” could not be opened. The file doesn’t exist.
>>>>>
>>>>> (my emphasis). I compiled sage from source and I am running:
>>>>>
>>>>> SageMath version 10.3.beta1
>>>>> Release Date: 2023-12-10         
>>>>> Using Python 3.11.6.
>>>>>
>>>>> on a 2022 macbook pro (M1 max), running Sonoma 14.1.2. I installed 
>>>>> dot2tex using:
>>>>>     sage -i dot2tex, which 
>>>>> which installed without errors. Running
>>>>>     sage: from sage.graphs.graph_latex import check_tkz_graph
>>>>>     sage: check_tkz_graph() 
>>>>> does not report any problems with my set up.
>>>>>
>>>>> I get the error message above using the the sage commands:
>>>>>
>>>>> sage: L=RootSystem(['A',4]).weight_space().basis()
>>>>> sage: G=crystals.LSPaths(['A',4], L[1])
>>>>> sage: G
>>>>> The crystal of LS paths of type ['A', 4] and weight Lambda[2]
>>>>> sage: view(G)
>>>>>
>>>>> I get the same error if I try the examples from the "Classical 
>>>>> crystals" thematic tutorial, 
>>>>> <https://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/thematic_tutorials/lie/crystals.html#installing-dot2tex>
>>>>>  
>>>>> such as:
>>>>>
>>>>> sage: B = crystals.Tableaux(['A',2], shape=[2,1])
>>>>> sage: view(B, tightpage=True) 
>>>>>
>>>>> When it does work, a nice tikz generated pdf file pops up. Am I 
>>>>> missing some steps? Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
>>>>>
>>>>> Andrew
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>

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