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Re: emacs export to PDF impossible due to missing pdflatex


From: Quiliro Ordonez
Subject: Re: emacs export to PDF impossible due to missing pdflatex
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 14:26:20 -0800

El 2019-02-06 21:39, Ricardo Wurmus escribió:
> Hi Quiliro,
> 
>> Emacs is capable of exporting to PDF by the use of pdflatex. This
>> program is available in Trisquel and PureOS (as a Debian inheritance) by
>> way of the 'texlive-latex-base' package. With Guix, even after
>> installing 'texlive-base' package (which depends on
>> 'texlive-latex-base'), Emacs would give the error of missing 'pdflatex'
>> when exporting to PDF. The only solution to exporting to PDF on Emacs on
>> a foreign distro is to install 'texlive-latex-base' via 'sudo apt
>> install'. On GSD (Guix System Distribution) it is impossible to export
>> to PDF on Emacs.
> 
> “pdflatex” is provided by “texlive-bin”.

Thank you! how did you know?

> I have yet to write a section in the manual to explain how LaTeX on Guix
> systems works.  And maybe texlive-base ought to include texlive-bin.

I don't think my knowledge is enough to help with this. But if I can be
of help, I will be glad to.



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