Re: error with publish

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 19, 2013, at 6:06 PM, Francis Poulin wrote:

> On 2013-09-19, at 5:58 PM, Francis Poulin <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On 2013-09-19, at 4:56 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sep 19, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Francis Poulin wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 2013-09-18, at 9:36 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sep 17, 2013, at 2:24 PM, Francis Poulin wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I am running octave 3.6.4 that I have installed on my mac using fink.  I 
>>>>>> wanted to play with the publish command to see how it works.  I 
>>>>>> installed it using fink, loaded it ok, but then when I tried to publish 
>>>>>> I simple script I got the following error
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> error: 'exec_print' undefined near line 277 column 33
>>>>>> error: called from:
>>>>>> error:   /sw/share/octave/3.6.4/packages/miscellaneous-1.2.0/publish.m 
>>>>>> at line 277, column 31
>>>>>> error:   /sw/share/octave/3.6.4/packages/miscellaneous-1.2.0/publish.m 
>>>>>> at line 136, column 5
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It is not essential that I use this but thought I would point it out in 
>>>>>> case someone knows how to fix this.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks, Francis
>>>>> 
>>>>> exec_print() is a function that is internal to publish.m.  For 
>>>>> miscellaneous-1.2.0, It begins on line 307 of publish.m.  Perhaps there 
>>>>> is something wrong with your publish.m (corrupted or modified by mistake)?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ben
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Hello Ben,
>>>> 
>>>> I spoke too soon. One example publishes correctly, and looks great by the 
>>>> way, but another fails with another program.  The error I get is
>>>> 
>>>> error: 'exec_print' undefined near line 216 column 33
>>>> error: called from:
>>>> error:   /sw/share/octave/3.6.4/packages/miscellaneous-1.2.0/publish.m at 
>>>> line 216, column 31
>>>> error:   /sw/share/octave/3.6.4/packages/miscellaneous-1.2.0/publish.m at 
>>>> line 138, column 5
>>>> 
>>>> I removed my fink install and reinstalled it and it gives the same error.
>>>> 
>>>> When I look at publish.m I se that line 277 uses exec_print. I believe the 
>>>> comments finish near lines 114.  
>>>> 
>>>> Would this be a fink issue?
>>>> 
>>>> Initially I tried using pkg -forge but that failed.  Fink installed it and 
>>>> it sometimes works, which is a bit better but maybe there's an outstanding 
>>>> issue?  Or I'm doing something silly.
>>>> 
>>>> Francis
>>> 
>>> Can you provide an example that I should be able to duplicate?
>>> 
>>> Ben
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Yes, here is an example that doesn't work for me.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Francis
>> 
>> <FD_error.m>
> 
> I should also add that I tried this command.
> 
> publish('FD_error.m','format','html','imageFormat','jpg')

The problem is the "clear all".  When that executes, the functions internal to 
publish.m are cleared from memory.  Just remove the "clear all" and all should 
be ok.

Ben