Regarding my question, I did see the recent update to Geoff Eddy's "Bugs in asciidoc latex backend" from a little after 3.6.7 came out.
http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/latex-bugs.html He explains why the tables are getting colspecs that assume 15 left justified columns. On Sunday, May 13, 2012 8:16:02 PM UTC-4, Tom wrote: > > Hi, Gour, > > This is a fortuitous posting. I was considering starting a topic like this. > > While I know the latex backend is experimental, I also know my needs are > simple and I thought I might not push it past its limits. Lately I gave it > a try. > > So two things ... > > 1) > > To answer the thread's question first -- I got the same error. You see, > the manual says somewhere that asciidoc will try to load in all the filters > it finds in the filter directory. That includes the source-filter (or > whatever it's called, see below) filter. But there's something wrong with > it, so even if you aren't using source-highlight-filtering, you get an > error. > > My favorite theories about it are: You might have to install the > source-highlight package to get it to work. OR .... the name of the source > hilight filter may have changed recently, and the asciidoc referencing > hasn't caught up yet. > > Anyway ... WORKAROUND ... The way to turn the thing off is to create a > file named > > __noautoload__ > > in the folder with the filter's config file. I found mine in the filters > folder, which is in the asciidoc or .asciidoc folder in the machine's > \user\(username)\AppData\Roaming (or in the Documents and > Settings\(username)\ ) section , since I'm on windows. > > That keeps the filter from trying to load, and asciidoc and the latex > backend can proceed. > > 2) > > But then there's my question. > > ...... I used this on the 8.6.7 distribution's doc\asciidoc.txt file. > > ...... Did everyone else that tried this get the same thing, that all > ...... the tables ran off the right hand side of the pdf's page? > > (I am planning to examine the latex source that was generated for the > tables, but I ran out of time.) > > Tom > > On May 4, 4:59 am, Gour <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 08:54:54 -0700 (PDT) > > Sebastian Bernhard > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello Sebastian, > > > > > Running this command only produces the following error message. > > > > > asciidoc: WARNING: ep.txt: line 3: missing section: [source-filter- > > > style] > > > asciidoc: FAILED: ep.txt: line 3: malformed section entry: > > > template::[source-filter-style] > > > > I've tried latex backend hoping to find workaround for lack of proper > > floating of images, but I get the same error as you. > > > > > What should be done, to give the latex backend a try. > > > > Have you, maybe, found some workaround to use latex backend with latest > > AsciiDoc? > > > > Sincerely, > > Gour > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/asciidoc/-/NBkzYtRUhHIJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en.
