Bold text beginning line produces empty PDF

Bold text beginning line produces empty PDF

[Raffi R]

If I begin a line with bolded text, like so:

*Case 1:*

it produces the following LaTeX:

\textbf{Case 1:\}

Exporting with C-c C-e d produces an empty LaTeX document.

Is this reproducible? Is it a bug?

Thank you,
 - Raffi.

Re: Bold text beginning line produces empty PDF

[Eric S Fraga]

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On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:54:11 -0500, Raffi R <raffir@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If I begin a line with bolded text, like so:
> 
> *Case 1:*
> 
> it produces the following LaTeX:
> 
> \textbf{Case 1:\}
> 
> Exporting with C-c C-e d produces an empty LaTeX document.
> 
> Is this reproducible? Is it a bug?

It works fine with me so long as I have something before this line,
even just the template generated by C-x C-e t.  (see attached file)

However, in testing this out, I have run into two little problems:

1. if I simply visit a buffer (not a file), say x.org, and try
   exporting to Latex in a temporary buffer (C-c C-e L), I get the
   following error:

,----
| Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
|   file-name-nondirectory(nil)
|   org-export-as-latex(nil nil nil "*Org LaTeX Export*")
|   org-export-as-latex-to-buffer(nil)
|   call-interactively(org-export-as-latex-to-buffer)
|   org-export(nil)
|   call-interactively(org-export nil nil)
`----

2. if I subsequently save the buffer into a file (C-x C-w x.org), for
   some reason I get prompted for a file name when trying C-c C-e L.

This is all with org-mode from git as of this morning.

eric

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#+TITLE:     x.org
#+AUTHOR:    Eric S Fraga
#+EMAIL:     e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk
#+DATE:      2010.02.11 10:18:22
#+DESCRIPTION: 
#+KEYWORDS: 
#+LANGUAGE:  en
#+OPTIONS:   H:3 num:t toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -:t f:t *:t <:t
#+OPTIONS:   TeX:t LaTeX:t skip:nil d:nil todo:t pri:nil tags:not-in-toc
#+INFOJS_OPT: view:nil toc:nil ltoc:t mouse:underline buttons:0 path:http://orgmode.org/org-info.js
#+EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS: export
#+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: noexport
#+LINK_UP:   
#+LINK_HOME: 

*Case 1:*  This is interesting

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Re: Bold text beginning line produces empty PDF

[Scot Becker]

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Eric,

Others will know better, but I think it's right to say, that's just how
latex export (currently) works.  It needs to have your buffer saved (C-x
C-s), and not just written to a file somewhere (C-x C-w).  This seems true
even if all you want to do is get your latex in a temporary buffer.  It's
not ideal for rustling up a quick piece of throwaway LaTeX, but, as I
remember, it's always been that way.

Scot


On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:54:11 -0500, Raffi R <raffir@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If I begin a line with bolded text, like so:
> >
> > *Case 1:*
> >
> > it produces the following LaTeX:
> >
> > \textbf{Case 1:\}
> >
> > Exporting with C-c C-e d produces an empty LaTeX document.
> >
> > Is this reproducible? Is it a bug?
>
> It works fine with me so long as I have something before this line,
> even just the template generated by C-x C-e t.  (see attached file)
>
> However, in testing this out, I have run into two little problems:
>
> 1. if I simply visit a buffer (not a file), say x.org, and try
>   exporting to Latex in a temporary buffer (C-c C-e L), I get the
>   following error:
>
> ,----
> | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
> |   file-name-nondirectory(nil)
> |   org-export-as-latex(nil nil nil "*Org LaTeX Export*")
> |   org-export-as-latex-to-buffer(nil)
> |   call-interactively(org-export-as-latex-to-buffer)
> |   org-export(nil)
> |   call-interactively(org-export nil nil)
> `----
>
> 2. if I subsequently save the buffer into a file (C-x C-w x.org), for
>   some reason I get prompted for a file name when trying C-c C-e L.
>
> This is all with org-mode from git as of this morning.
>
> eric
>
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Re: Bold text beginning line produces empty PDF

[Eric S Fraga]

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:36:07 +0000, Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> [1  <text/plain; ISO-8859-1 (7bit)>]
> Eric,
> 
> Others will know better, but I think it's right to say, that's just how
> latex export (currently) works.  It needs to have your buffer saved (C-x
> C-s), and not just written to a file somewhere (C-x C-w).  This seems true
> even if all you want to do is get your latex in a temporary buffer.  It's
> not ideal for rustling up a quick piece of throwaway LaTeX, but, as I
> remember, it's always been that way.
> 
> Scot

Thanks.  Sounds reasonable!  

eric

Re: Bold text beginning line produces empty PDF

[Raffi R]

Interestingly, my LaTeX also chokes on the sample x.org; while I can
export it, I get the error "The file x.org could not be opened because
it is empty." This is on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard using Preview. It only
occurs using PDFs generated from org, as far as I can tell. I will
explore some more to see if it's due to LaTeX or Preview or something
else.

Has anyone else had this problem?

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:36:07 +0000, Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> [1  <text/plain; ISO-8859-1 (7bit)>]
>> Eric,
>>
>> Others will know better, but I think it's right to say, that's just how
>> latex export (currently) works.  It needs to have your buffer saved (C-x
>> C-s), and not just written to a file somewhere (C-x C-w).  This seems true
>> even if all you want to do is get your latex in a temporary buffer.  It's
>> not ideal for rustling up a quick piece of throwaway LaTeX, but, as I
>> remember, it's always been that way.
>>
>> Scot
>
> Thanks.  Sounds reasonable!
>
> eric
>

Re: Bold text beginning line produces empty PDF

[Carsten Dominik]

On Feb 11, 2010, at 7:54 AM, Raffi R wrote:

> If I begin a line with bolded text, like so:
>
> *Case 1:*
>
> it produces the following LaTeX:
>
> \textbf{Case 1:\}
>
> Exporting with C-c C-e d produces an empty LaTeX document.
>
> Is this reproducible? Is it a bug?

I am not able to reproduce it.  WOrks just fine for me.  Can you  
please make
a complete example file and attach the produced tex file as well?  And  
maybe
you settings as listed bu org-submit-bug-report?

Are you using the latest version of Org-mode?  Git release?

Thanks

- Carsten

>
> Thank you,
> - Raffi.
>
>
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Re: Bold text beginning line produces empty PDF

[Carsten Dominik]

On Feb 11, 2010, at 11:23 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:54:11 -0500, Raffi R <raffir@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If I begin a line with bolded text, like so:
>>
>> *Case 1:*
>>
>> it produces the following LaTeX:
>>
>> \textbf{Case 1:\}
>>
>> Exporting with C-c C-e d produces an empty LaTeX document.
>>
>> Is this reproducible? Is it a bug?
>
> It works fine with me so long as I have something before this line,
> even just the template generated by C-x C-e t.  (see attached file)
>
> However, in testing this out, I have run into two little problems:
>
> 1. if I simply visit a buffer (not a file), say x.org, and try
>  exporting to Latex in a temporary buffer (C-c C-e L), I get the
>  following error:

I believe I have successfully lifted this restriction now.

>
> ,----
> | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
> |   file-name-nondirectory(nil)
> |   org-export-as-latex(nil nil nil "*Org LaTeX Export*")
> |   org-export-as-latex-to-buffer(nil)
> |   call-interactively(org-export-as-latex-to-buffer)
> |   org-export(nil)
> |   call-interactively(org-export nil nil)
> `----
>
> 2. if I subsequently save the buffer into a file (C-x C-w x.org), for
>  some reason I get prompted for a file name when trying C-c C-e L.

At lease with the latest version I cannot reproduce this.
Can you please check again after pulling?

Thanks.

- Carsten

Re: Bold text beginning line produces empty PDF

[Eric S Fraga]

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:19:31 +0100, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Feb 11, 2010, at 11:23 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:54:11 -0500, Raffi R <raffir@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> If I begin a line with bolded text, like so:
> >>
> >> *Case 1:*
> >>
> >> it produces the following LaTeX:
> >>
> >> \textbf{Case 1:\}
> >>
> >> Exporting with C-c C-e d produces an empty LaTeX document.
> >>
> >> Is this reproducible? Is it a bug?
> >
> > It works fine with me so long as I have something before this line,
> > even just the template generated by C-x C-e t.  (see attached file)
> >
> > However, in testing this out, I have run into two little problems:
> >
> > 1. if I simply visit a buffer (not a file), say x.org, and try
> >  exporting to Latex in a temporary buffer (C-c C-e L), I get the
> >  following error:
> 
> I believe I have successfully lifted this restriction now.
> 
> >
> > ,----
> > | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
> > |   file-name-nondirectory(nil)
> > |   org-export-as-latex(nil nil nil "*Org LaTeX Export*")
> > |   org-export-as-latex-to-buffer(nil)
> > |   call-interactively(org-export-as-latex-to-buffer)
> > |   org-export(nil)
> > |   call-interactively(org-export nil nil)
> > `----
> >
> > 2. if I subsequently save the buffer into a file (C-x C-w x.org), for
> >  some reason I get prompted for a file name when trying C-c C-e L.
> 
> At lease with the latest version I cannot reproduce this.
> Can you please check again after pulling?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> - Carsten
> 

Carsten,

it all works very well indeed.  Exporting to a temporary latex buffer
works in both of these cases:

1. visiting a new buffer, no file attached;

2. after saving the buffer to a file (write-file).

Further, the OP's original problem is definitely not there.

Thanks,
eric