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..

Thanks for the troubleshooting ideas. I'm getting XeTeX set up on my system an will verify that it works with TeXShop. Then I'll try getting Org Mode configured to use it as the LaTeX process.