* latex export on mac os x with xelatex
@ 2010-02-22 7:34 Christian Wittern
2010-02-22 11:49 ` Christian Wittern
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From: Christian Wittern @ 2010-02-22 7:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Org Mode Mailing List
Dear Orgmode users,
I am trying to get Latex export working on a Mac OS X system. I have
installed MacTex with the whole texlive tree. I added the path to these
binaries to exec-path like so:
(if (eq window-system 'mac)
(add-to-list 'exec-path "/usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/universal-darwin")
)
and can confirm that it is indeed picked up and existing in the exec-path.
However, org-export-as-pdf does not manage to produce a pdf.
Next I customized the variable to include the path so that I have
"/usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/universal-darwin/xelatex -interaction
nonstopmode %s" (on one line) as the value of org-latex-to-pdf-process.
Now the xelatex command runs, but the next step fails, since xelatex can not
convert its intermediate file to a pdf, so I get as the first line in the
buffer *Org PDF Latex Output* :
sh: xdvipdfmx: command not found
But now I have no idea where to go to tell orgmode how to find the command
-- someting seems to be seriously wrong (or I am misunderstanding how stuff
is supposed to work) so any help would be appreciated.
All the best,
Christian
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@ 2010-02-22 11:49 ` Christian Wittern
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From: Christian Wittern @ 2010-02-22 11:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Org Mode Mailing List
Hi there,
For the benefit of later visitors, here is how I worked around the problem
for the moment:
orgmode seems to ignore the exec-path, so I looked at the result of
(getenv "PATH"), which was very little. Saying
(setenv "PATH" (concat "/usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/universal-darwin:"
(getenv "PATH")))
in my .emacs solved the problem, the latex export now happily works its way
to the texlive programs and does what it needs to do. So I suspect this is
some kind of setup problem that might be specific to my installation. I
will see if I can find out more once I have a little time.
Thanks for your time:-)
All the best,
Christian
On 2010-02-22 16:34, Christian Wittern wrote:
> Dear Orgmode users,
>
> I am trying to get Latex export working on a Mac OS X system. I have
> installed MacTex with the whole texlive tree. I added the path to these
> binaries to exec-path like so:
>
> (if (eq window-system 'mac)
> (add-to-list 'exec-path "/usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/universal-darwin")
> )
>
> and can confirm that it is indeed picked up and existing in the exec-path.
>
> However, org-export-as-pdf does not manage to produce a pdf.
>
> Next I customized the variable to include the path so that I have
>
> "/usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/universal-darwin/xelatex -interaction
> nonstopmode %s" (on one line) as the value of org-latex-to-pdf-process.
>
> Now the xelatex command runs, but the next step fails, since xelatex can not
> convert its intermediate file to a pdf, so I get as the first line in the
> buffer *Org PDF Latex Output* :
>
> sh: xdvipdfmx: command not found
>
> But now I have no idea where to go to tell orgmode how to find the command
> -- someting seems to be seriously wrong (or I am misunderstanding how stuff
> is supposed to work) so any help would be appreciated.
>
> All the best,
>
> Christian
--
Christian Wittern
Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
47 Higashiogura-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8265, JAPAN
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