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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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