[Nix-dev] Latex package to handle unicode characters?

[Guillaume Maudoux (Layus)]

Hi,

`xelatex` comes with the texlive package `xetex`, which is included in
scheme-small.
I just checked that adding xetex to my texlive.combine function, and I
have access to xelatex.

You can try it yourself with
$ ls -l $(nix-build -E "with import <nixpkgs> {}; pkgs.texlive.combine {
foo = pkgs.texlive.scheme-small; }")/bin/xelatex      
lrwxrwxrwx 7 root root 5  1 jan  1970
/nix/store/85ix8d6wy1f9lsy97cqyp0z7hp5iaapw-texlive-combined-2015/bin/xelatex
-> xetex

If you do not have xelatex in your env, there must be an issue somewhere.

Best regrads,

-- Layus.


Le 30/05/16 à 01:56, Jeffrey David Johnson a écrit :
> I get the following error when exporting some markdown to PDF with pandoc:
>
>     An error occured: PDF creation failed:
>     ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:  not set up for use with LaTeX.
>
>     See the inputenc package documentation for explanation.
>     Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>      ...                                              
>                                                   
>     l.150   Evolutionary Analysis}
>
>     Try running pandoc with --latex-engine=xelatex.
>
> I could hunt this one character down, but is there a package I could add to my texlive environment that might help handle this type of problem in general? So far I just use the standard one:
>
>     myTexLive = texlive.combine {
>       inherit (texlive) scheme-small;
>     };
>
> Don't see any mention of xelatex in nixpkgs. Ideally I'd like to handle all of unicode, but just skipping any unrenderable characters would be OK too, since I gather latex doesn't do that yet?
>
> Thanks
> Jeff
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