Re: Publish to PDF on Linux: An impossible task?

2019-11-11 Thread Alan Tyree
I don't know if this helps, but I am running Manjaro, using the repository packages and have no problem with export. The installed texlive packages are: texlive-bin texlive-core texlive-humanities texlive-latexextra I have no problems with either org export or any pandoc conversions. Cheers,

Re: Publish to PDF on Linux: An impossible task?

2019-11-11 Thread Alan E. Davis
Arch linux has a package, aside from any arch directly installed individualized texlive packages, that just installs the texlive network install script, and directs the user to run the script that is located in /opt . This piece of magic is "texlive-installer", available in the Arch Users

Re: Publish to PDF on Linux: An impossible task?

2019-11-11 Thread Jack Kamm
John Hendy writes: > By "LaTeX" I mean "that which is necessary to have a functioning latex > system." If by lower-level you mean the ecosystem itself vs. compiling > errors, completely agree. Clearly some core components are missing. > For example, the texmf.cnf file is provided by the arch

Re: Publish to PDF on Linux: An impossible task?

2019-11-11 Thread Diego Zamboni
Hi Nate, As others have said, your problem sounds more like a broken TeXlive install, I would highly recommend installing the official distribution. However, even with a proper working LaTeX install, the output from the plain LaTeX exporter can be underwhelming, particularly if you want things

Re: Publish to PDF on Linux: An impossible task?

2019-11-10 Thread Samuel Wales
there is also pandoc, if you know something that you can export to that pandoc can reasonably convert. like, who knows, html or something. this might be useful if you are in a hurry or you don't want to install a non-distribution package or whatever. On 11/10/19, Tim Cross wrote: > This looks

Re: Publish to PDF on Linux: An impossible task?

2019-11-10 Thread Tim Cross
This looks like an incomplete textLive install to me. On many distributions, texlive is broken up into a number of smaller packages. You need to ensure you have installed the texlive latex packages. I would follow the advice of others and just use the package from the texlive site. On Mon, 11

Re: Publish to PDF on Linux: An impossible task?

2019-11-10 Thread John Hendy
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 6:41 PM Marcin Borkowski wrote: > > > On 2019-11-11, at 01:25, John Hendy wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 6:01 PM Nathan Neff wrote: > >> > >> After using org-mode for 10 years, I run for the doorway when > >> I even think about trying to convert an org-mode file to

Re: Publish to PDF on Linux: An impossible task?

2019-11-10 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2019-11-11, at 01:25, John Hendy wrote: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 6:01 PM Nathan Neff wrote: >> >> After using org-mode for 10 years, I run for the doorway when >> I even think about trying to convert an org-mode file to PDF. >> >> *** I quiver when I see errors such as: >> >> warning:

Re: Publish to PDF on Linux: An impossible task?

2019-11-10 Thread John Hendy
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 6:01 PM Nathan Neff wrote: > > After using org-mode for 10 years, I run for the doorway when > I even think about trying to convert an org-mode file to PDF. > > *** I quiver when I see errors such as: > > warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these

Re: Publish to PDF on Linux: An impossible task?

2019-11-10 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2019-11-11, at 01:00, Nathan Neff wrote: > After using org-mode for 10 years, I run for the doorway when > I even think about trying to convert an org-mode file to PDF. > > *** I quiver when I see errors such as: > > warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these >

Publish to PDF on Linux: An impossible task?

2019-11-10 Thread Nathan Neff
After using org-mode for 10 years, I run for the doorway when I even think about trying to convert an org-mode file to PDF. *** I quiver when I see errors such as: warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these directories: