From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Yankopolus Subject: Re: Help exporting to-do list as LaTeX/PDF Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 18:09:50 -0400 Message-ID: <671DF63D-F752-444C-B2D6-FD6C1BDD14AE@yank.to> References: <8962C06C-102B-40D7-B9AE-31F0E10D8DCA@yank.to> <87ppe7akom.fsf@berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44320) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcLuL-0007hq-Hn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:10:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcLuC-0003Uv-Mg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:10:01 -0400 Received: from mailout58.mail01.mtsvc.net ([216.70.64.123]:36674 helo=n43.mail01.mtsvc.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XcLuC-0003U9-Jd for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:09:52 -0400 Received: from c-50-167-213-9.hsd1.ga.comcast.net ([50.167.213.9]:61152 helo=[10.0.0.101]) by n43.mail01.mtsvc.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1XcLuB-0001oy-Be for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:09:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87ppe7akom.fsf@berkeley.edu> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > ... >> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi = 600 ecbx1200 >>=20 >> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt mf.base >> mktexpk: Mismatched mode ljfour and resolution 600; ignoring mode. >> mktexpk: Running mf-nowin -progname=3Dmf \mode:=3Dljfour; = mag:=3D1+0/600; nonstopmode; input ecbx1200 >> This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (Web2C 2013) >>=20 >> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt mf.base >> I can't find the base file `mf.base'! >=20 >> It took a while to get to this point, and I had to install a number = of >> font packages from the pkgsrc tex-* collection. I do have tex-ec-1.0 >> and tex-eco-1.3 installed. But it seems like the problem is more with >> metafont, which is completely beyond me. >=20 > Yeah, this looks to me like your setup is attempting to load (or = build??) a > font as part of the compilation process. As far as I know, that is = not > something that should be required when compiling an Org document > exported to LaTeX with the default options. >=20 > What are the values of your >=20 > org-latex-default-packages-alist > org-latex-packages-alist > org-latex-pdf-process >=20 > variables? And what does the header of the exported .tex file look > like? >=20 > I guess the way to debug this is to remove the packages that are = loaded > in the exported .tex file, one at a time, until you discover the one > that is at fault here. (If it's not some particular package, but > rather TeX/LaTeX itself that's trying to use METAFONT, I think you're = in > deeper waters...) Seems like the problem had to do with the combination of files installed = by pkgsrc for tetex. I switched from pkgsrc to macports for an unrelated = reason, and generation of PDFs from todo lists via LaTeX now just works.