On Tue, May 12, 2020, 12:34 Markus Schaaf <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 12.05.20 um 05:40 schrieb Raj Kombiyil via aur-general: > > > Before, I could just write my .Tex file and Ctrl+alt+1 and will get PDF. > > pdflatex is installed via texlive-most pkg. Here, Ctrl+alt+1 doesn't do > > anything. What am I missing? Because install was not proper? $which > > gedit-latex says no gedit-latex in /user/bin etc. > > Now, gedit can see the plugins and I marked the plugin. And also enabled > > bottom panel where I see error messages. Here nothing comes. Any idea > what > > I need to do? Since I am teaching a class, I guess wrong time to play > with > > arch :( > > If you look at the plugin's settings, there are a couple of commands > defined. One of which you are trying to use. The plugin's installation > doesn't depend on any of the programs that are setup by default for > these commands, because you may want to change them. Or not use all of > them. I wouldn't want to install R, for instance, just because the > plugin has commands to render *.rnw files. It's your responsibility to > install and setup everything, so the commands you use do what you want. > If you want to use the default rubber command, you need to install at > least 'rubber' and 'texlive-core'. The plugin does no magic. It just > calls a command. You may test the very same command in a terminal. > Thank you. I am somewhat familiar with this, tho not an expert by any yardstick. > > If you have never compiled a latex document on the command line, and are > not willing to learn it, then yes Arch isn't for you. Ha! Thanks for the encouragement :) Agree. Well, once I set up things to taste in Ubuntu, didn't have to explicitly do this everytime. Been a long while. Hmm I need to familiarize to find packages like beamer etc. Because the very > next problem would be finding out how to install additional latex > packages, that your document may use. > Agreed. Thanks for taking time off to reply + making the package. Let me see if I can grok it - to some extent :D > > BR >
