On Tue, May 12, 2020, 12:34 Markus Schaaf <mschaaf@elaboris.de> wrote:
Am 12.05.20 um 05:40 schrieb Raj Kombiyil via aur-general:
Before, I could just write my .Tex file and Ctrl+alt+1 and will get PDF. pdflatex is installed via texlive-most pkg. Here, Ctrl+alt+1 doesn't do anything. What am I missing? Because install was not proper? $which gedit-latex says no gedit-latex in /user/bin etc. Now, gedit can see the plugins and I marked the plugin. And also enabled bottom panel where I see error messages. Here nothing comes. Any idea what I need to do? Since I am teaching a class, I guess wrong time to play with arch :(
If you look at the plugin's settings, there are a couple of commands defined. One of which you are trying to use. The plugin's installation doesn't depend on any of the programs that are setup by default for these commands, because you may want to change them. Or not use all of them. I wouldn't want to install R, for instance, just because the plugin has commands to render *.rnw files. It's your responsibility to install and setup everything, so the commands you use do what you want. If you want to use the default rubber command, you need to install at least 'rubber' and 'texlive-core'. The plugin does no magic. It just calls a command. You may test the very same command in a terminal.
Thank you. I am somewhat familiar with this, tho not an expert by any yardstick.
If you have never compiled a latex document on the command line, and are not willing to learn it, then yes Arch isn't for you.
Ha! Thanks for the encouragement :) Agree. Well, once I set up things to taste in Ubuntu, didn't have to explicitly do this everytime. Been a long while. Hmm I need to familiarize to find packages like beamer etc. Because the very
next problem would be finding out how to install additional latex packages, that your document may use.
Agreed. Thanks for taking time off to reply + making the package. Let me see if I can grok it - to some extent :D
BR