Rebuilding orgcard for US Letter

Rebuilding orgcard for US Letter

[Marc Oscar Singer]

I'd like to rebuild the orgcard.tex file into
a US letter sized document.

    elf@zealous ~...gtd/org-6.03 > make doc/orgcard.pdf
    (cd doc; tex orgcard.tex)
    This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.6)
    kpathsea: Running mktexfmt tex.fmt
    I can't find the format file `tex.fmt'!
    make: *** [doc/orgcard.dvi] Error 1

I have tex installed, but I'm not sure if this file
should be part of the orgmode package, or part of
my distribution.

Thoughts?

Re: Rebuilding orgcard for US Letter

[Nick Dokos]

Marc Oscar Singer <elf@synapse.com> wrote:

> I'd like to rebuild the orgcard.tex file into
> a US letter sized document.
> 
>    elf@zealous ~...gtd/org-6.03 > make doc/orgcard.pdf
>    (cd doc; tex orgcard.tex)
>    This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>    kpathsea: Running mktexfmt tex.fmt
>    I can't find the format file `tex.fmt'!
>    make: *** [doc/orgcard.dvi] Error 1
> 
> I have tex installed, but I'm not sure if this file
> should be part of the orgmode package, or part of
> my distribution.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 

Your TeX installation seems to be misconfigured/incomplete.
This is what I get:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ make doc/orgcard.pdf
(cd doc; tex orgcard.tex)
This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.5)
(./orgcard.tex [3 columns per page] [1] [2] )
Output written on orgcard.dvi (2 pages, 20304 bytes).
Transcript written on orgcard.log.
dvips -q -f -t landscape doc/orgcard.dvi | gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=doc/orgcard.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

It *should* be the case that you can find the tex.fmt file
somewhere on your machine - try:

          kpsewhich tex.fmt

mktexfmt should actually be able to make it and install it - if
you don't find it in the above step, try making it:

          mktexfmt tex.fmt

and see where it ends up.

If this doesn't work, maybe somebody else has more/better ideas!-)

Regards,
Nick

Re: Rebuilding orgcard for US Letter

[Marc Oscar Singer]

Nick Dokos wrote:
> Marc Oscar Singer <elf@synapse.com> wrote:
>
>   
> Your TeX installation seems to be misconfigured/incomplete.
>   
That was true.  Once I installed it, I was able to run make doc.
Unfortunately, I still was getting an A4 sized orgcard.  I had to
add -t letter to the dvips command to coerce the output to be
letter.  Not sure why.

Thanks for the help.

OT: HOWTO Configure TeX:: was Re: Rebuilding orgcard for US Letter

[Eric J. Haywiser]

On Mon, 19 May 2008, Marc Oscar Singer wrote:

> Nick Dokos wrote:
>> Marc Oscar Singer <elf@synapse.com> wrote:
>>
>>   Your TeX installation seems to be misconfigured/incomplete.
>> 
> That was true.  Once I installed it, I was able to run make doc.
> Unfortunately, I still was getting an A4 sized orgcard.  I had to
> add -t letter to the dvips command to coerce the output to be
> letter.  Not sure why.

If you are running the teTeX which ships with many Linux distros, the
default paper is A4.  Running texconfig then selecting paper|letter
from the menus should solve your problems.  The same solution may work
in other circumstances as well.

Re: OT: HOWTO Configure TeX:: was Re: Rebuilding orgcard for US Letter

[Joel J. Adamson]

"Eric J. Haywiser" <ejh1@MIT.EDU> writes:

> On Mon, 19 May 2008, Marc Oscar Singer wrote:
>
>> Nick Dokos wrote:
>>> Marc Oscar Singer <elf@synapse.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>   Your TeX installation seems to be misconfigured/incomplete.
>>>
>> That was true.  Once I installed it, I was able to run make doc.
>> Unfortunately, I still was getting an A4 sized orgcard.  I had to
>> add -t letter to the dvips command to coerce the output to be
>> letter.  Not sure why.
>
> If you are running the teTeX which ships with many Linux distros, the
> default paper is A4.  Running texconfig then selecting paper|letter
> from the menus should solve your problems.  The same solution may work
> in other circumstances as well.

Wow!  Thanks for pointing that out ;)  I've been using teTeX for almost
three years and didn't know about that!

Joel

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