On Oct 9, 2010, at 6:42 AM, Nick Dokos wrote:
Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> wrote:
I am looking for a way out which will allow pdf compilation of Org
work out of the box, and still allow texi2dvi to be used where
possible.
I have so far come up with two possible work-arounds and would
like to hear if one of them makes sense:
1. I could set the environment variable LC_ALL
for the duration of the texi2dvi command to some value
like C? That should fix the egrep call, but could
it have adverse effects on the pdflatex and bibtex runs or
any other stuff used in texi2dvi?
Yes, at least theoretically. I don't think anybody has gone down
the path of investigating these effects.
2. On startup, I could use
(if (= 0 (shell-command "echo foo | egrep \"[A-z]\""))
....
to check if there is a problem and in this case go for
manual pdflatex runs rather than using texi2dvi. THis might work,
but it would be a bit unpredictable what ends up being used,
and with no setup in Org you could get different sets of commands
on different machines.
The trouble with this is that you are checking on egrep which will
give
you a positive for egrep versions >= 2.6.x, but the fix to texi2dvi
might
have made that irrelevant. How about
try
texi2dvi
except
do Seb's thrice-repeated pdflatex (or whatever) call
After everybody has updated to the latest texinfo, the exception code
can be taken out.
Alternatively, the texi2dvi method can be reverted: it was an idea
that
was worth trying, but it has caused more harm than good at this point
- maybe it can be revisited in six months.
Any ather ideas? Comments?
Perhaps org-latex-to-pdf-process should just run pdflatex twice (or
three times) so that it most likely will work out of the box. IIUC,
the user can set this variable to something else. Some ready-to-use
alternatives on Worg might be useful. There, the pitfalls of using
texi2dvi could be explained and those with systems where it works
could find a recipe and make use of it. The use of other latex make
files might be illustrated there as well.
All the best,
Tom
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