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Re: does org mode require a separate LaTeX installation to export?


From: Christopher W. Ryan
Subject: Re: does org mode require a separate LaTeX installation to export?
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:40:41 -0400
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Thanks Bill!

William Denton wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 19th, 2024 at 08:55, Christopher W. Ryan 
> <cryan@binghamton.edu> wrote:
> 
>> In other words, if a complete novice, knowing nothing about LaTeX and
>> not having it on their machine ever, installed emacs and created an org
>> mode file, could they export via latex to PDF? Could they export to html?
> 
> To HTML, yes.  They could export to a LaTeX file, but they wouldn't be able 
> to do anything with it: to make the PDF they'd need the LaTeX environment, 
> which Org relies on.  (Exporting to OpenDocument, .odt, works out of the box, 
> so if they have LibreOffice or Word they could use that to convert to PDF, 
> which might be more approachable, if that helps.)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bill
> 
> --
> William Denton
> https://www.miskatonic.org/
> Librarian, artist and licensed private investigator.
> Toronto, Canada
> 
> 



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