Re: Unicode and Latex export

[Christopher Witte <chris@witte.net.au>]

On 08/07/2011 02:15 PM, suvayu ali wrote:
> Hello Christopher,
>
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Christopher Witte<chris@witte.net.au>  wrote:
>> You could try using XeLaTeX, which supports unicode.  Instructions for
>> setting it up with org-mode are here
>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#using-xelatex-for-pdf-export
>>
> My lisp is not very good, but what is the need for such an extensive
> setup? Isn't setting org-latex-to-pdf-process to xelatex enough to
> switch packends?
>
> In any case, I tried evaluating the provided code in a scratch buffer
> and processing to pdf (C-c C-e p). But it keeps failing. From the error
> it seems org is still trying latex instead of xelatex and no pdf is
> produced. Do you have any ideas about what could I doing wrong?
>
> Error:
>
> Latexmk: Run number 1 of rule 'latex'
> Latexmk: Running 'latex   -interaction=batchmode
> "/home/jallad/org/analysis.tex"'
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2010)
>   restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> Latexmk: References changed.
> Latexmk: References changed.
> Latexmk: References changed.
> Collected error summary (may duplicate other messages):
>    latex: Command for 'latex' gave return code 256
> Latexmk: Use the -f option to force complete processing.
>
>
>> Chris.
> Thanks a lot for your response.
>
Did you remember to set the variable

#+LATEX_CMD: xelatex

at the top of the org file?


Chris.