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Re: [O] Help exporting to-do list as LaTeX/PDF
From: |
Andreas Yankopolus |
Subject: |
Re: [O] Help exporting to-do list as LaTeX/PDF |
Date: |
Thu, 9 Oct 2014 18:09:50 -0400 |
> ...
>> 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.