Hello Adam,

As Ubuntu and Debian user, I agree with Robert: the install of texlive via
texlive-full is the best solution. Other packages can after be installed in
~/texmf/tex/latex/local/  (idem for ~/texmf/bibtex/ )  and everything
should run smoothly.

Best wishes,

Jo.

Le lun. 3 sept. 2018 à 07:49, Robert Klein <roklein@roklein.de> a écrit :

> Hi Adam,
>
> On Mon, 03 Sep 2018 09:32:14 +1200
> adam <ahcnz@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2018-09-02 at 11:04 +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> > > On Saturday,  1 Sep 2018 at 22:12, adam wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Am on Ubuntu 16.04, org-version is 8.2.10
> > > >
> > > > Export to PDF C-c C-e l o  is working.
> > > > However I wish finer grain LaTeX control.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > For Export to PDF to work, I needed  pdftex
> > > But org exports to LaTeX, not TeX.  I.e. it exports to TeX with the
> > > assumption that the LaTeX macros are all available.
> > >
> > > Am I missing something?
> > >
> > > What finer grain control would you like that you cannot achieve
> > > using org directions such as #+latex: and #+begin_export latex?
> > >
> >
> > I require management of TeX (TeX Live) for export to PDF (LaTeX).
> >
> > The Tex Live manager (tlmgr) displays available fonts, loads and
> > removes fonts and other packages.
> > https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/tlmgr.html
> >
> >
> > Sure, pdftex (from texlive-latex-extra) enables org-mode export to
> > PDF, however the fonts available are opaque within the TexLive
> > environment without tlmgr. Navigation of TexLive customizations, set
> > with install-tl are opaque without tlmgr.
> >
> >
> > packages for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS can be seen here,
> > https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=texlive
> >
> > using the TexLive installer  install-tl  can be seen here,
> >
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1092/how-to-install-vanilla-texlive-on-debian-or-u
> > buntu
> >
> >
> > In other words, org-mode export to PDF assumes a pdftex, and the
> > tex/texlive/LaTex environment is up to the user to simply provide a
> > pdftex.
> >
>
> I don't get the “require management” part of this.  Ubuntu has about
> 100 texlive packages, the texlive distribution offers about 47.  The
> SUSE guys went overboard and had (still have?) about 3500 packages ---
> a former 2-hour installation with about 3-5 “texlive” packages (fully
> automated) took 4.5 plus then...
>
> Why don't you just install Ubuntu's texlive-full and be done with it?
>
> Best regards
> Robert
>
>
>
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