pdflatex.fmt error using pandoc/pdflatex

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  • Antero Mejr
  • Nicolas Goaziou
  • Ricardo Wurmus
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Antero Mejr wrote 9 months ago
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When using pandoc to export markdown to PDF, the following error occurs:

```
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
mktexfmt: No such file or directory

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
mktexfmt: No such file or directory
Error producing PDF.
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.25 (TeX Live 2023/GNU Guix) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
restricted \write18 enabled.
I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
```

It appears that the texlive packages were refactored lately, so it is
difficult to tell what packages are needed. Currently the following
packages are installed:

texlive-base
texlive-bin
texlive-scripts
texlive-latex-base

Also I think the pandoc package should propagate the packages it needs
to build PDFs.
Ricardo Wurmus wrote 9 months ago
(name . Antero Mejr)(address . mail@antr.me)(address . andreas@enge.fr)(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
87msn2vrsi.fsf@elephly.net
Antero Mejr <mail@antr.me> writes:

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> When using pandoc to export markdown to PDF, the following error
> occurs: [...]

Could you please show us what command you used? It's hard to work on
this when we can't easily reproduce the problem.

--
Ricardo
Antero Mejr wrote 9 months ago
(name . Ricardo Wurmus)(address . rekado@elephly.net)(address . andreas@enge.fr)(address . 71849@debbugs.gnu.org)
87wmm6lba2.fsf@antr.me
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

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> Antero Mejr <mail@antr.me> writes:
>
>> When using pandoc to export markdown to PDF, the following error
>> occurs: [...]
>
> Could you please show us what command you used? It's hard to work on
> this when we can't easily reproduce the problem.

The command was:
```
pandoc -f markdown -t pdf -o out.pdf in.md
```

Any markdown file should reproduce the issue.
Nicolas Goaziou wrote 9 months ago
Re: bug#71849: pdflatex.fmt error using pandoc/pdflatex
(name . Antero Mejr)(address . mail@antr.me)(name . Ricardo Wurmus)(address . rekado@elephly.net)(address . andreas@enge.fr)(address . 71849@debbugs.gnu.org)
87o77i8n3w.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr
Hello,

Antero Mejr <mail@antr.me> writes:

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> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> Antero Mejr <mail@antr.me> writes:
>>
>>> When using pandoc to export markdown to PDF, the following error
>>> occurs: [...]
>>
>> Could you please show us what command you used? It's hard to work on
>> this when we can't easily reproduce the problem.
>
> The command was:
> ```
> pandoc -f markdown -t pdf -o out.pdf in.md
> ```
>
> Any markdown file should reproduce the issue.

FWIW, I can export the following "in.md" Markdown file:

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# Titre de niveau 1
## Titre de niveau 2
### Titre de niveau 3

**Texte en gras**

*Texte en italique*

~~Texte barré~~

> Texte cité

- Liste à puces
- Avec plusieurs éléments

1. Liste numérotée
2. Avec plusieurs éléments

`Code en ligne`

using the command:

guix shell --pure pandoc texlive-collection-latexrecommended texlive-ulem -- pandoc -f markdown -t pdf -o out.pdf in.md

Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
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