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Bug 406783

Summary: dev-tex/pgf-2.10: TikZ "callout" positioning problem
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: José Romildo Malaquias <jrmalaq>
Component: [OLD] DevelopmentAssignee: TeX project <tex>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal Keywords: PATCH
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: pgf-2.10-callouts.patch
pgf-2.10-ebuild.patch

Description José Romildo Malaquias 2012-03-03 14:29:49 UTC
When using callout shapes, I get the following error from pdflatex:

! Undefined control sequence.
\pgf@sh@bg@rectangle callout ...f@sh@np@\pgf@test 
                                                  \noexpand \endcsname }\ede...

This is a known bug, a workaround is discussed at 

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25736/tikz-callout-positioning-problem
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/31921/callout-and-beamer
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/b41b47158ac5d221/b7428bd8ca1084ae?pli=1

Please, incorporate the sugested fix to portage until a new version is released without the bug.
Comment 1 José Romildo Malaquias 2012-03-03 14:47:51 UTC
Created attachment 304133 [details, diff]
pgf-2.10-callouts.patch

Fix for the bug.
Comment 2 José Romildo Malaquias 2012-03-03 14:50:32 UTC
Created attachment 304135 [details, diff]
pgf-2.10-ebuild.patch

Changes the ebuild to use the callouts patch.
Comment 3 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev 2014-03-15 10:18:00 UTC
+*pgf-3.0.0 (15 Mar 2014)
+
+  15 Mar 2014; Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> +pgf-3.0.0.ebuild:
+  Version bump, bug #497436. Fixes bugs #406783 and #399087. Symlink docs from
+  the texmf tree so that texdoc finds it, bug #441874.
+