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Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?)
From: |
Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?) |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Oct 2020 22:10:39 +0200 |
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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
> zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Currently it is not easy to produce the PDF of the manual. For
>> reference, see [1]. There are 2 issues:
>>
>> a) the ’texlive’ package.
>> b) the fonts about Russian or Chinese.
>>
>> About the a), it is really painful to download the *big* texlive package
>> to be able to compile TeX. Especially when we have modular texlive
>> packages. However, it is not clear to me which packages I have to use.
>> Any help is welcome. :-)
>
> I tried this:
>
> guix environment --pure guix --ad-hoc -e '(begin (use-modules (gnu
> packages tex))(texlive-union (list texlive-epsf texlive-fonts-ec
> texlive-amsfonts)))'
>
> This allows me to build doc/guix.pdf, but it chokes on the French and
> German versions (at least). Frustratingly, texi2dvi swallows all errors
> and just prints:
>
> pdftex exited with bad status, quitting.
>
> Thanks, I guess.
I can now build the French and the German manuals in this environment:
guix environment --pure guix --ad-hoc -e '(begin (use-modules (gnu packages
tex))(texlive-union (list texlive-epsf texlive-fonts-ec texlive-amsfonts
texlive-tex-texinfo)))'
Unfortunately, the accents and umlauts in the table of contents are
still wrong, but they are fine everywhere else.
--
Ricardo
- Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?), zimoun, 2020/10/16
- Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?), Ludovic Courtès, 2020/10/21
- Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?), Ricardo Wurmus, 2020/10/21
- Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?), Ricardo Wurmus, 2020/10/22
- Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?), Ricardo Wurmus, 2020/10/22
- Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?), Ricardo Wurmus, 2020/10/22
- Re: Manual PDF and translation (modular texlive?), zimoun, 2020/10/22