Re: Help exporting to-do list as LaTeX/PDF

[Andreas Yankopolus <andreas@yank.to>]

> ...
>> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 ecbx1200
>> 
>> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt mf.base
>> mktexpk: Mismatched mode ljfour and resolution 600; ignoring mode.
>> mktexpk: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1+0/600; nonstopmode; input ecbx1200
>> This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (Web2C 2013)
>> 
>> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt mf.base
>> I can't find the base file `mf.base'!
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> What are the values of your
> 
> org-latex-default-packages-alist
> org-latex-packages-alist
> org-latex-pdf-process
> 
> variables?  And what does the header of the exported .tex file look
> like?
> 
> 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.