From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: quiliro@fsfla.org
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs export to PDF impossible due to missing pdflatex
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 22:39:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lg2sfvfo.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a79b5618b924a79376487560b54c8236@riseup.net>
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”.
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.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-06 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-06 20:32 emacs export to PDF impossible due to missing pdflatex Quiliro Ordonez
2019-02-06 21:39 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-02-06 22:26 ` Quiliro Ordonez
2019-02-07 12:08 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-02-07 12:44 ` zimoun
2019-02-07 13:12 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-02-07 14:20 ` zimoun
2019-02-07 15:13 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-02-07 22:25 ` Quiliro Ordonez
2019-02-07 22:33 ` Quiliro Ordonez
2019-02-08 8:20 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-02-08 12:39 ` Quiliro Ordonez
2019-02-10 15:44 ` Quiliro Ordonez
2019-02-14 9:07 ` Pierre Gambarotto
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