Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ ctable | Table not compilable with every Compiler Engine

[gandym]

Hi,

I am relatively new to writing in LaTeX and I have hit a problem I am unable to solve.

When I process the following MWE with latex-dvips-ps2pdf I get a properly formatted table. However, when I use PDFLaTeX directly, the compiler hangs indefinitely.

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\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{ctable}
\usepackage{auto-pst-pdf}

\newcolumntype{Y}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}

\begin{document}

\ctable[caption = {Caption},width = 120mm,pos = h,]{YYY}{}{
                               \FL
Column 1 & Column 2 & Column 3 \ML
     (H) &       80 &       90 \NN
    (Mu) &       50 &       70 \LL
}

\end{document}

I am using TeXStudio with MiKTeX 2.9 on a Windows 7 (x64) system.
Based on reports of similar problems I have tried changing the option for PdfLaTeX in TexStudio to

• pdflatex -synctex=1 --enable-write18 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex or
• pdflatex --shell-escape %.tex

without success.

I have also attached the log files after an attempted PDFLaTeX run.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
gandym

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Gandym,

welcome to the board!

auto-pst-pdf doesn't work in all cases.

How about removing that, and using XeLaTeX instead, if you needed it because of PSTricks? Or just delete it, if you don't use PSTricks and compile with pdfLaTeX.

Stefan

[gandym]

Hi Stefan_K,

Thanks for your fast response. Unfortunately, I was rather hoping for a solution which uses auto-pst-pdf.

If I comment out auto-pst-pdf, then the table compiles. But if I then include the graphicx package and a simple \includegraphics{chemimage.eps} then pdflatex generates an error: File 'chemimage.eps' not found. This same code happily compiles with latex-dvips-ps2pdf. If I instead use chemimage.pdf, then it compiles, but I cannot use chemnum package to replace TMP labels in the graphic.....

Including the [crop=off] options for auto-pst-pdf allows the EPS graphic to compile but it still hangs when compiling the table.

So my problem boils down to the fact that auto-pst-pdf won't work with the table and the EPS graphic/chemnum numbering won't work without it.

Also, I also tried your suggestion regarding XeLaTeX using TeXworks but I encountered the same problems.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
gandym

[gandym]

I still don't have a good solution for this but I have found a fairly tedious workaround.

In my expanded MWE below, I have included an image with a temporary label to be changed by chemnum. When running pdflatex, the auto-pst-pdf package generates an error if I try to use a ctable with a column width Y, predefined as \newcolumntype{Y}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}.

To get around this I run pdflatex with column width set with {ccc} exactly as shown in the MWE. Once complete, I change \usepackage{auto-pst-pdf} to \usepackage[off]{auto-pst-pdf} and {ccc} to {YYY} and run pdflatex again. The second pdflatex run uses the images generated in the first run, but now formats tables as desired.

This process also works for images that occupy an entire row in ctables, as demonstrated if all of the code is uncommented – but, I doubt this would produce the correct alignment if the image was confined to a single cell.

So tedious, but I find it does work, even in my 100+ page thesis containing ctables throughout.

I am sure there must be other, more automated ways around this...

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\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{ctable}
\usepackage{chemstyle}
\usepackage{chemnum}
\usepackage{auto-pst-pdf}

\newcolumntype{Y}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}

\begin{document}

Some text.

{
\cmpdref{one}
\ctable[caption = {Caption},width = 120mm,pos = h,]{ccc}{}{
\multicolumn{3}{c}{\includegraphics{chemimage.eps}}\\
                                                    \FL
   Column 1   &      Column 2      &     Column 3   \ML
     (H)      &         80         &        90      \NN
     (Mu)     &         50         &        70      \LL
}
}

\end{document}