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

[Guillaume Maudoux (Layus)]

Bottom line is that texlive updates its packages frequently and our md5 are always out of sync. We mirror some packages but not the whole scheme-full.

AFAIK, you can either use scheme basic, or go trough the update procedure described in texlive-new/default.nix to get a (temporarily) up-to-date list of hashes and build against that.

Regards,
-- Layus.


Le 6 juin 2016 22:33:35 UTC+02:00, Taeer Bar-Yam <tb442 at cornell.edu> a écrit :
>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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