LaTeX rendering incorrectly

[arredondos]

Description of bug / unexpected behavior

When using a custom LaTeX template, fractions are rendered incorrectly (no fraction line or only fraction line).
The generated .tex, .svg and .pdf files are correct. No LaTeX warnings or errors are emitted.

How to reproduce the issue

Here is a minimal working example that reproduces the problem:

Code for reproducing the problem

from manim import *

preamble = r"""
\usepackage[mathrm=sym]{unicode-math}
\setmathfont{Fira Math}
"""

template = TexTemplate(
    preamble = preamble, 
    tex_compiler = 'lualatex', 
    output_format='.pdf'
)

class MyScene(Scene):
    def construct(self):
        self.add(Tex(r"$\frac{a}{b}$", tex_template = template))

Additional media files

Images/GIFs

Here's the output, where the fraction bar is missing:

If you remove the option output_format='.pdf' then only the fraction bar is rendered.

Logs

Terminal output

Nothing noteworthy or out of the ordinary in the terminal output.

System specifications

System Details

• Windows 10 v21H2
• RAM: 32GB
• Python version: 3.10.2
• Installed modules (provide output from pip list):

WARNING: Ignoring invalid distribution -ip (c:\python310\lib\site-packages)
WARNING: Ignoring invalid distribution -anim (c:\python310\lib\site-packages)
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WARNING: Ignoring invalid distribution -ip (c:\python310\lib\site-packages)
WARNING: Ignoring invalid distribution -anim (c:\python310\lib\site-packages)
WARNING: Ignoring invalid distribution -ip (c:\python310\lib\site-packages)
WARNING: Ignoring invalid distribution -anim (c:\python310\lib\site-packages)

LaTeX details

• LaTeX distribution: MikTeX
• Installed LaTeX packages:
  

FFMPEG

Output of ffmpeg -version:

ffmpeg version 5.0.1-essentials_build-www.gyan.dev Copyright (c) 2000-2022 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 11.2.0 (Rev7, Built by MSYS2 project)
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-static --disable-w32threads --disable-autodetect --enable-fontconfig --enable-iconv --enable-gnutls --enable-libxml2 --enable-gmp --enable-lzma --enable-zlib --enable-libsrt --enable-libssh --enable-libzmq --enable-avisynth --enable-sdl2 --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-libaom --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libvpx --enable-libass --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvmaf --enable-libzimg --enable-amf --enable-cuda-llvm --enable-cuvid --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-nvdec --enable-nvenc --enable-d3d11va --enable-dxva2 --enable-libmfx --enable-libgme --enable-libopenmpt --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libgsm --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopus --enable-libspeex --enable-libvorbis --enable-librubberband
libavutil      57. 17.100 / 57. 17.100
libavcodec     59. 18.100 / 59. 18.100
libavformat    59. 16.100 / 59. 16.100
libavdevice    59.  4.100 / 59.  4.100
libavfilter     8. 24.100 /  8. 24.100
libswscale      6.  4.100 /  6.  4.100
libswresample   4.  3.100 /  4.  3.100
libpostproc    56.  3.100 / 56.  3.100

[SolidTux]

The same thing happens for me, even without unicode-math. Just using lualatex is enough to trigger it.

[PhilippImhof]

FWIW, I get the following error:

╭─────────────────────────────── Traceback (most recent call last) ────────────────────────────────╮
│ ./manim/manim/mobject/text/tex_mobject.py:434 in __init__                    │
│                                                                                                  │
│   431 │   def __init__(                                                                          │
│   432 │   │   self, *tex_strings, arg_separator="", tex_environment="center", **kwargs           │
│   433 │   ):                                                                                     │
│ ❱ 434 │   │   super().__init__(                                                                  │
│   435 │   │   │   *tex_strings,                                                                  │
│   436 │   │   │   arg_separator=arg_separator,                                                   │
│   437 │   │   │   tex_environment=tex_environment,                                               │
│                                                                                                  │
│ ./manim/manim/mobject/text/tex_mobject.py:288 in __init__                    │
│                                                                                                  │
│   285 │   │   │   │   tex_template=self.tex_template,                                            │
│   286 │   │   │   │   **kwargs,                                                                  │
│   287 │   │   │   )                                                                              │
│ ❱ 288 │   │   │   self._break_up_by_substrings()                                                 │
│   289 │   │   except ValueError as compilation_error:                                            │
│   290 │   │   │   if self.brace_notation_split_occurred:                                         │
│   291 │   │   │   │   logger.error(                                                              │
│                                                                                                  │
│ ./manim/manim/mobject/text/tex_mobject.py:362 in _break_up_by_substrings     │
│                                                                                                  │
│   359 │   │   │   │   # positioned in the right part of the MathTex                              │
│   360 │   │   │   │   sub_tex_mob.submobjects = [VectorizedPoint()]                              │
│   361 │   │   │   │   last_submob_index = min(curr_index, len(self.submobjects) - 1)             │
│ ❱ 362 │   │   │   │   sub_tex_mob.move_to(self.submobjects[last_submob_index], RIGHT)            │
│   363 │   │   │   else:                                                                          │
│   364 │   │   │   │   sub_tex_mob.submobjects = self.submobjects[curr_index:new_index]           │
│   365 │   │   │   new_submobjects.append(sub_tex_mob)                                            │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
IndexError: list index out of range

[heafnerj]

I discovered this problem today. The LaTeX bundle I maintain, mandi, requires lualatex so I hope this bug can be fixed.

[uwezi]

I believe we solved this already on Discord.... I haven't seen it here on Github before.

The problem is caused because in general all shapes generated by LaTeX and dvisvgm are filled paths with a zero outline, and Manim thus assumes that all stroke_widths should be zero for the resulting svg-import. However, in some rare circumstances lines are just included as lines in the LaTeX output.

Workaround: identify the glyph and set the stroke width accordingly - the following code is untested, because I have neither luatex nor the fira-font currently installed....

from manim import *

preamble = r"""
\usepackage[mathrm=sym]{unicode-math}
\setmathfont{Fira Math}
"""

template = TexTemplate(
    preamble = preamble, 
    tex_compiler = 'lualatex', 
    output_format='.pdf'
)

class MyScene(Scene):
    def construct(self):
        tex = Tex(r"$\frac{a}{b}$", tex_template = template)
        tex[0][1].set_stroke(width=3,color=WHITE)
        self.add(tex)

[heafnerj]

Thank you for the rapid reply! I was experimenting before seeing your post and discovered that commenting out the output_format='pdf' and using {a}\over{b} instead of \frac{a}{b} allows the bar to render. I will be away most of the day but will try your fix tonight. UPDATE: It works.