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

[Taeer Bar-Yam]

actually it appears that only scheme-basic is working. scheme-full is giving me an error about md5 hash mismatches:
( output path ‘/nix/store/ayq32cfk92kiysywxnb35xfhsm4j3wbq-2up.tar.xz’ has md5 hash ‘7bb1a159a6e50d7cb807c58f471e360e’ when ‘6160fbc7ab71be778081500b908d2648’ was expected )
does anyone know what the problem is and how to fix it?
> On Jun 6, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Taeer Bar-Yam <tb442 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> 
> I had a similar problem and started using texlive.combine.scheme-full or texlive.combine.scheme-basic. Maybe try that, see if it works for what you need?
>> On Jun 6, 2016, at 2:07 PM, Jeffrey David Johnson <jefdaj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I was using texLiveFull until recently, but now it's marked broken and a comment points users to the texlive.combine method. I tried checking out an older version of pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex but the dependencies don't line up with the rest of nixpkgs anymore. Probably I just want the full set of texlive-new packages, even if they're big, becuase I don't know what I'm doing enough to pick and choose. So I tried this monster (all collections + inputenc packages):
>> 
>>  myTexlive = with pkgs; texlive.combine {
>>    inherit (texlive)
>>      collection-basic
>>      collection-bibtexextra
>>      collection-binextra
>>      collection-context
>>      collection-fontsextra
>>      collection-fontsrecommended
>>      collection-fontutils
>>      collection-formatsextra
>>      collection-games
>>      collection-genericextra
>>      collection-genericrecommended
>>      collection-htmlxml
>>      collection-humanities
>>      collection-langafrican
>>      collection-langarabic
>>      collection-langchinese
>>      collection-langcjk
>>      collection-langcyrillic
>>      collection-langczechslovak
>>      collection-langenglish
>>      collection-langeuropean
>>      collection-langfrench
>>      collection-langgerman
>>      collection-langgreek
>>      collection-langindic
>>      collection-langitalian
>>      collection-langjapanese
>>      collection-langkorean
>>      collection-langother
>>      collection-langpolish
>>      collection-langportuguese
>>      collection-langspanish
>>      collection-latex
>>      collection-latexextra
>>      collection-latexrecommended
>>      collection-luatex
>>      collection-mathextra
>>      collection-metapost
>>      collection-music
>>      collection-omega
>>      collection-pictures
>>      collection-plainextra
>>      collection-pstricks
>>      collection-publishers
>>      collection-science
>>      collection-texworks
>>      collection-wintools
>>      collection-xetex
>>      greek-inputenc;
>>  };
>> 
>> Still the same error though. Maybe it's a pandoc issue after all.
>> Jeff
>> 
>> On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 02:45:18 -0700
>> Linus Arver <linusarver at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 04:56:12PM -0700, Jeffrey David Johnson wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>> 
>>> I used to use the texliveFull package, which included xelatex.
>>> 
>>> FWIW, I no longer use texliveFull; instead I use a Docker container for
>>> all TeX-related things as it is much simpler to use along with
>>> negligible maintenence costs, if at all.
>>> 
>>>> So far I just use the standard one:
>>>> 
>>>>    myTexLive = texlive.combine {
>>>>      inherit (texlive) scheme-small;
>>>>    };
>>>> 
>>>> Don't see any mention of xelatex in nixpkgs.
>>> 
>>> That's probably because it still comes with texliveFull, which is what
>>> most people use I imagine.
>>> 
>>>> 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?
>>> 
>>> AFAIK, Latex never dealt with Unicode natively. Xelatex has much simpler
>>> font support (fontspec) so I've always opted for Xelatex from the beginning.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Linus
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