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Re: emacs export to PDF impossible due to missing pdflatex


From: Ricardo Wurmus
Subject: Re: emacs export to PDF impossible due to missing pdflatex
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 22:39:39 +0100
User-agent: mu4e 1.0; emacs 26.1

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




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