Re: [O] newbie which LaTeX for PDF publish

[adam]

On Sun, 2018-09-02 at 11:04 +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Saturday,  1 Sep 2018 at 22:12, adam wrote:
> > 
> > Am on Ubuntu 16.04, org-version is 8.2.10 
> > 
> > Export to PDF C-c C-e l o  is working. 
> > However I wish finer grain LaTeX control. 
> > 
> > 
> > For Export to PDF to work, I needed  pdftex  
> But org exports to LaTeX, not TeX.  I.e. it exports to TeX with the
> assumption that the LaTeX macros are all available.
> 
> Am I missing something?
> 
> What finer grain control would you like that you cannot achieve using
> org directions such as #+latex: and #+begin_export latex?
> 

I require management of TeX (TeX Live) for export to PDF (LaTeX). 

The Tex Live manager (tlmgr) displays available fonts, loads and removes fonts 
and other
packages. 
https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/tlmgr.html 


Sure, pdftex (from texlive-latex-extra) enables org-mode export to PDF, however 
the 
fonts available are opaque within the TexLive environment without tlmgr. 
Navigation of TexLive customizations, set with install-tl are opaque without 
tlmgr.  


packages for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS can be seen here, 
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=texlive 

using the TexLive installer  install-tl  can be seen here, 
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1092/how-to-install-vanilla-texlive-on-debian-or-u
buntu 


In other words, org-mode export to PDF assumes a pdftex, and the 
tex/texlive/LaTex
environment is up to the user to simply provide a pdftex.