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From: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode-email <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: minimal testing setup for pdf export?
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 10:13:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN_Dec9dF=4fy=1Qn45xzTs6GihCC-zi9EEB4Mp6P4kUMWqVnA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+M2ft8YiSK0qG+5zyKVC-NR5AamrZ2m0Bp=JLxGj8iAzwNYVA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 11:27 AM John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 6:34 PM Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 1:33 PM John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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
>
> File contents:
> * foo
> <eof>
>
> C-x C-s
> C-c C-e l p
>
> $ ls ~/
> pdf-test.org
> pdf-test.pdf
> pdf-test.tex
>
> Alternatively, insert the code from John Kitchin:
>
> 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



>
> >
> >> 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 <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 8:27 AM John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
> 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 <Julius.Dittmar@gmx.de>
> 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
> >>>>>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-30 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-27  1:20 minimal testing setup for pdf export? Matt Price
2019-08-27  3:26 ` Ken Mankoff
2019-08-27  6:14 ` Robert Klein
2019-08-27 10:34   ` Matt Price
2019-08-27 11:55     ` Julius Dittmar
2019-08-27 12:26       ` John Kitchin
2019-08-27 12:57         ` Matt Price
2019-08-27 17:32           ` John Kitchin
2019-08-27 23:33             ` Matt Price
2019-08-28  8:29               ` Julius Dittmar
2019-08-29 15:27               ` John Hendy
2019-08-30 14:13                 ` Matt Price [this message]
2019-08-30 14:45                   ` John Hendy
2019-08-30 18:11                     ` Jude DaShiell
2019-08-30 20:07                       ` Nick Dokos
2019-08-30 21:10                         ` Jude DaShiell
2019-08-30 23:31                           ` Tim Cross
2019-08-30 23:59                             ` Jude DaShiell
2019-08-31  1:46                               ` Tim Cross

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