Re: does org mode require a separate LaTeX installation to export?

[William Denton]

On Wednesday, June 19th, 2024 at 08:55, Christopher W. Ryan 
<cryan@binghamton.edu> wrote:

> In other words, if a complete novice, knowing nothing about LaTeX and
> not having it on their machine ever, installed emacs and created an org
> mode file, could they export via latex to PDF? Could they export to html?

To HTML, yes.  They could export to a LaTeX file, but they wouldn't be able to 
do anything with it: to make the PDF they'd need the LaTeX environment, which 
Org relies on.  (Exporting to OpenDocument, .odt, works out of the box, so if 
they have LibreOffice or Word they could use that to convert to PDF, which 
might be more approachable, if that helps.)

Cheers,

Bill

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