Re: [O] minimal testing setup for pdf export?

[John Hendy]

Whew, the world is whole again! No worries, and I've been in the exact
same situation more than I'd like. We joke at work that if you want to
fix a problem, just ask someone to come watch it happen and it will
magically go away :)

Glad you're on your way!
John

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 9:27 AM Matt Price <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 11:27 AM John Hendy <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 6:34 PM Matt Price <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 1:33 PM John Kitchin <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> >> that does suggest that pdflatex is getting called somewhere else.
>> >>
>> >> Maybe you can edebug the export function and check the value of 
>> >> default-directory to see where it is getting called.
>> >>
>> >> You could also try this
>> >>
>> >> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
>> >> (defun my-build (quoted-tex-file)
>> >>   (message "Building %s. Called from %s" quoted-tex-file 
>> >> default-directory))
>> >>
>> >> (setq org-latex-pdf-process 'my-build)
>> >> #+END_SRC
>> >>
>> >> It won't build the pdf, but it will tell you in the messages where it was 
>> >> called from. It might help figure out what is happening.
>> >
>> >
>> > huh.  that was kinda cool... but the value of default-directory seems to 
>> > be correct.  However, this helped a bit:
>> >
>> > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
>> > (shell-command-to-string "echo $PWD")
>> >
>> > #+END_SRC
>> >
>> >
>> > #+RESULTS:
>> > : /home/matt/src/org-mode
>> >
>> > Not sure what's going on here, but this value is the same in a regular 
>> > emacs and  "emacs -Q".  is this normal?
>> >
>>
>> Did this get solved? It kind of bothers me to think it hasn't. I also
>> think this is a case where erring on the side of overwhelming details
>> would help a lot. Could you start from the beginning with the exact
>> process using emacs -Q, post the full output of *Messages* and *Org
>> PDF LaTeX Output*? Like in the above, you post the output of $PWD, but
>> not what the *Messages* buffer contained from John's code. Maybe they
>> are the same, maybe they are different, but we can't tell.
>>
>> Example:
>> $ cd ~/
>> $ emacs -Q
>>
>> M-x org-version
>> Org mode version 9.1.9 (release_9.1.9-65-g5e4542 @
>> /usr/share/emacs/26.2/lisp/org/)
>>
>> C-x C-f pdf-test.org
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>> File contents:
>> * foo
>> <eof>
>>
>> C-x C-s
>> C-c C-e l p
>>
>> $ ls ~/
>> pdf-test.org
>> pdf-test.pdf
>> pdf-test.tex
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>> Alternatively, insert the code from John Kitchin:
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>> Wrote /home/jwhendy/pdf-text.org
>> org-babel-exp process emacs-lisp at position 8...
>> Saving file /home/jwhendy/pdf-text.tex...
>> Wrote /home/jwhendy/pdf-text.tex
>> Processing LaTeX file pdf-text.tex...
>> Building pdf-text.tex. Called from /home/jwhendy/
>> org-compile-file: File "/home/jwhendy/pdf-text.pdf" wasn’t produced.
>> See "*Org PDF LaTeX Output*" for details
>>
>> I still don't feel I understand the full nature of your working
>> directory, what does and doesn't get saved in that directory, etc. I'd
>> love to help, but am not able to replicate for you!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John
>>
> John H,
> Thank you so much for the detailed instructions. I had a moment this morning 
> so I updated Emacs, rebooted my laptop, and started to follow your 
> instructions as closely as possible... and I can no longer reproduce my 
> problem. I feel like I should be happier than I am! I wonder if perhaps there 
> was some kind of strange path problem caused by a software update that I 
> didn't pay attention to.
>
> In any case, I am as always grateful for the efforts of people on this list 
> -- I learned at least a little bit about latex export and feel that I might 
> finally be getting a little closer to where I need to be.
>
> Meanwhile, if the issue shows up again I'll be sure to check back in.
>
> Thanks!
> Matt
>
>
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>> >> John
>> >>
>> >> -----------------------------------
>> >> Professor John Kitchin
>> >> Doherty Hall A207F
>> >> Department of Chemical Engineering
>> >> Carnegie Mellon University
>> >> Pittsburgh, PA 15213
>> >> 412-268-7803
>> >> @johnkitchin
>> >> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 8:57 AM Matt Price <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 8:27 AM John Kitchin <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Can you manually compile the empty.tex file from the command line? eg
>> >>>>
>> >>>> pdflatex empty
>> >>>>
>> >>> (reposting to group)
>> >>>
>> >>> pdflatex empty
>> >>>
>> >>> Seems to work fine. Hmmm...
>> >>>>
>> >>>> John
>> >>>>
>> >>>> -----------------------------------
>> >>>> Professor John Kitchin
>> >>>> Doherty Hall A207F
>> >>>> Department of Chemical Engineering
>> >>>> Carnegie Mellon University
>> >>>> Pittsburgh, PA 15213
>> >>>> 412-268-7803
>> >>>> @johnkitchin
>> >>>> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 7:57 AM Julius Dittmar <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Am 27.08.19 um 12:34 schrieb Matt Price:
>> >>>>> > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019/Arch
>> >>>>> > Linux) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
>> >>>>> >  restricted \write18 enabled.
>> >>>>> > entering extended mode
>> >>>>> > ! I can't find file `empty.tex'.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> So pdflatex is called and found. Then pdflatex can't find empty.tex.
>> >>>>> That looks like pdflatex is called in another directory than where
>> >>>>> empty.tex resides. How that could happen, no idea.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Julius
>> >>>>>