How is the LaTeX-related file psfonts.map installed on Guix?

How is the LaTeX-related file psfonts.map installed on Guix?

[Rovanion Luckey]

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Hi,
I'm trying to define a Guix environment that enables the following LaTeX
document to be compiled:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> \usepackage[swedish]{babel}
> \usepackage{url}
> \usepackage{color}
> \usepackage[colorlinks=true, linkcolor=blue, urlcolor=blue]{hyperref\
> }
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage{lmodern}
> \usepackage{morefloats}
> \usepackage{sectsty}
> \usepackage{ifmtarg}
> \usepackage{pagenote}
>
> \makepagenote
> \let\footnote\pagenote
> \renewcommand*{\notedivision}{\section*{\notesname}}
> \renewcommand*{\pagenotesubhead}[2]{}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \title{\textsc{\Huge Curriculum Vitae\\[0.5cm]}}
> \newpage
>
> \setlength{\hoffset}{0pt}
>
> \printnotes
>
> \end{document}
>

It's a reduced version of the real document I'm writing. Right now I've
packaged a bunch of things that were missing like
texlive-generic-babel-swedish, texlive-morefloats, texlive-sectsty,
texlive-ifmtarg and texlive-pagenote for an environment that is started
with the following call:

$ ~/source/guix/main/pre-inst-env guix environment --ad-hoc texlive-base
texlive-generic-babel-swedish texlive-url texlive-latex-hyperref
texlive-fonts-ec texlive-lm texlive-morefloats texlive-sectsty
texlive-pagenote

But I'm now stuck at the following error that pdflatex throws at me:

kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600
> ec-lmr12
> gsftopk: fatal: map file `psfonts.map' not found.
> mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ec-lmr12.
> mktexpk: perhaps ec-lmr12 is missing from the map file.
> kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
>  )
> !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file ec-lmr12): Font ec-lmr12 at 600 not found
>  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>

I've looked at the Debian package and it looks to be provided by
texlive-base: https://packages.debian.org/buster/all/texlive-base/filelist.
The same folder path in Guix seems to be generated by the function
gnu/packages/tex.scm:texlive-union; but I have no idea how I would go about
having it generate the .map-file I want it to.

Does anyone happen to have any idea what to do here. I've spent a couple of
hours without getting anywhere, so any hints would be appreciated.

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Re: How is the LaTeX-related file psfonts.map installed on Guix?

[Andreas Enge]

Hello,

as a quick fix, you can install the (huge) texlive package, which in one
place contains the full texlive distribution. Your document compiles with
pdflatex then.

Am Sun, May 02, 2021 at 05:03:18PM +0200 schrieb Rovanion Luckey:
>     \usepackage[colorlinks=true, linkcolor=blue, urlcolor=blue]{hyperref\
>     }

(After dropping the "\" after "hyperref", which I assume sneaked in through
email formatting.)

There may be a way using less space, but at least this one works.

Andreas

Re: How is the LaTeX-related file psfonts.map installed on Guix?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Rovanion

there was a problem with the profile hook.  It only did half of 
the work that “texlive-union” normally does.  “texlive-union” is 
used for packages only, but some of the steps it performs should 
also have been done by the profile hook.

Commit a6b8794c69446730b5f12eb8eefc5ef3b99c97dc fixes this 
problem.

I saved your document in a file “doc.tex” and then ran this 
command successfully:

    guix environment --pure --ad-hoc \
      texlive-base \
      texlive-url \
      texlive-latex-hyperref \
      texlive-fonts-ec \
      texlive-lm \
      texlive-babel-swedish \
      texlive-pagenote \
      texlive-ifmtarg \
      texlive-morefloats \
      texlive-sectsty -- pdflatex doc.tex

This produces a PDF file “doc.pdf” with an almost empty page with 
the text “Notes”.

There was a warning about Babel, which may indicate some other 
problem:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Package babel Warning: Unknown language `nil'. Very likely you
(babel)                requested it in a previous run. Expect some
(babel)                wrong results in this run, which should 
vanish
(babel)                in the next one. Reported on input line 19.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

-- 
Ricardo

Re: How is the LaTeX-related file psfonts.map installed on Guix?

[Rovanion Luckey]

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Hello rekado!

I saved your document in a file “doc.tex” and then ran this
> command successfully:
>
>     guix environment --pure --ad-hoc \
>       texlive-base \
>       texlive-url \
>       texlive-latex-hyperref \
>       texlive-fonts-ec \
>       texlive-lm \
>       texlive-babel-swedish \
>       texlive-pagenote \
>       texlive-ifmtarg \
>       texlive-morefloats \
>       texlive-sectsty -- pdflatex doc.tex
>
> This produces a PDF file “doc.pdf” with an almost empty page with
> the text “Notes”.
>

Thank you. My full document also builds now with the above environment. The
strange thing is that, just as you noted, even though all texlive-hyphen-{a
lot of european languages} are all installed my pdflatex outputs the
following:

Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were preloaded for
> (babel)                the language `Swedish' into the format.
> (babel)                Please, configure your TeX system to add them and
> (babel)                rebuild the format. Now I will use the patterns
> (babel)                preloaded for \language=0 instead on input line 49.
>

And in the document hyphenation is very much broken, either not breaking
words at all or breaking in the wrong places.

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Re: How is the LaTeX-related file psfonts.map installed on Guix?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Rovanion Luckey <rovanion.luckey@gmail.com> writes:

> Thank you. My full document also builds now with the above 
> environment. The
> strange thing is that, just as you noted, even though all 
> texlive-hyphen-{a
> lot of european languages} are all installed my pdflatex outputs 
> the
> following:
>
> Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were preloaded 
> for
>> (babel)                the language `Swedish' into the format.
>> (babel)                Please, configure your TeX system to add 
>> them and
>> (babel)                rebuild the format. Now I will use the 
>> patterns
>> (babel)                preloaded for \language=0 instead on 
>> input line 49.
>>
>
> And in the document hyphenation is very much broken, either not 
> breaking
> words at all or breaking in the wrong places.

Interesting.  The error message says “rebuild the format”, so it’s 
possible that we actually need to do that.

If you look at the definition of texlive-latex-base, we’re 
building a few formats in the “build” phase.  Actually, you’ll see 
all the formats that we *don’t* build, but what’s left includes 
“pdflatex”.  It’s possible that we need to change this slightly to 
ensure that the hyphenation patterns are actually found.  My guess 
is that when we build these formats, TeX is not aware of the 
hyphenation patterns, even though they are in the build 
environment.

-- 
Ricardo