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<kir0ul>rekado, yeah I think so

<PurpleSym>Regarding TeX, rekado, I see that nbconvert is failing to write a PDF with this error: `! Font TU/lmr/m/n/10.95=[lmroman10-regular]:mapping=tex-text; at 10.95pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found.`

<PurpleSym>Does that ring a bell?

<rekado>PurpleSym: texlive-lm?

<PurpleSym>Is part of the `texlive-union`, yes.

<PurpleSym>(Or rather texlive-updmap.cfg?)

<rekado>hmm

<rekado>can you reproduce this separately?

<PurpleSym>I can reproduce it with `guix shell python-nbconvert texlive-base -- jupyter nbconvert Untitled.ipynb --to pdf` as well as exporting to latex and then running it through xetex. Anything else?

<PurpleSym>(texlive-base is apparently required for `article.cls`)

<rekado>texlive-lm provides lmroman10-regular.otf

<rekado>so you’re using xetex?

<rekado>xelatex?

<rekado>or pdflatex?

<rekado>they all use different font discovery mechanism

<rekado>texlive-base is the minimum you need for a barely usable texlive

<PurpleSym>nbconvert runs it through xelatex.

<rekado>this gives you the core latex packages, texlive-bin, and just a little bit more.

<rekado>I see.

<rekado>I’ve done little with xelatex. It used to work with less fuzz than pdflatex, though.

<rekado>could you give me the .tex file so I can investigate?

<PurpleSym>rekado: https://6xq.net/paste/notebook.tex.html

<PurpleSym>Do I need to include texlive-tiny/-base into the texlive-updmap.cfg call?

<rekado>honestly, I don’t know. I don’t have a mental model of what texlive-updmap.cfg does.

<rekado>texlive-union was easier :)

<rekado>uhm

<rekado>texlive-updmap.cfg has default-packages, which is all the packages that texlive-base propagates.

<rekado>since texlive-base is just propagating packages and not providing anything on its own I think that’s equivalent

<rekado>so: no, you don’t need to add texlive-base

<rekado>texlive-tiny is just (texlive-updmap.cfg) without any extra packages

<PurpleSym>Heh, thanks anyway :)

<rekado>bah, the inconsistent naming of texlive packages really annoys me

<rekado>(and it’s sad that new packages with the wrong names have been added)

<rekado>copy/paste is powerful

<rekado>PurpleSym: my current command keeps growing: guix shell -C texlive-base texlive-lm texlive-amsmath texlive-tcolorbox texlive-latex-trimspaces texlive-oberdiek texlive-generic-ltxcmds texlive-generic-infwarerr texlive-latex-parskip texlive-latex-kvoptions texlive-fontspec texlive-caption texlive-latex-float texlive-latex-geometry texlive-amsfonts texlive-latex-upquote texlive-eurosym texlive-latex-ucs texlive-latex-fancyvrb -- xelatex

<rekado>nbconvert.tex

<civodul>rekado: is there a convention on meta-packages such as those that Debian provides?

<rekado>it’s in tlpdb

<civodul>oh nice

<rekado>you can grep for “name collection-”

<PurpleSym>`python-nbconvert` already has a huge list of texlive inputs. It’s strange these are native-inputs though 🤨

*civodul admits not knowing how to access tlpdb :-/

<civodul>ah yes, in texlive-bin

<civodul>41 of them

<rekado>PurpleSym: this worked: guix shell -C texlive-base texlive-lm texlive-amsmath texlive-tcolorbox texlive-latex-trimspaces texlive-oberdiek texlive-generic-ltxcmds texlive-generic-infwarerr texlive-latex-parskip texlive-latex-kvoptions texlive-fontspec texlive-caption texlive-latex-float texlive-latex-geometry texlive-amsfonts texlive-latex-upquote texlive-eurosym texlive-latex-ucs texlive-latex-fancyvrb texlive-grffile texlive-adjustbox

<rekado>texlive-hyperref texlive-zapfding texlive-stringenc texlive-titling texlive-tools texlive-ulem texlive-booktabs texlive-enumitem texlive-latex-jknapltx texlive-fonts-rsfs -- xelatex nbconvert.tex

<civodul>rekado: would it make sense to import these as "texlive-collection-*"?

<civodul>if it does, i can give it a try and start with a couple of them

<PurpleSym>rekado: Unfortunately not for me, but it throws a different error: ! Math formula deleted: Insufficient extension fonts.

<rekado>PurpleSym: I fixed that bug very recently

<rekado>you need the new texlive-amsmath

<rekado>sorry, the new texlive-amsfonts/fixed

<rekado>commit 64fcf9508af318cc2d71811815cfbe99063867b1

<PurpleSym>Ah yes, with `time-machine` and `texlive-amsfonts-fixed` it works. Thanks! I’ll update the nbconvert package.

<rekado>civodul: yes, we should provide packages for them. But you can’t just import them, I think, because they don’t have any contents.

<rekado>and we have no recursive importer yet

<rekado>and before we add new packages I think it would be a good idea to fix the build system + simple-texlive-package to produce higher quality packages

<civodul>rekado: ah, that makes sense

<rekado>on wip-texlive I’ll first deprecate all of the old-style names

<rekado>can we dump all of the deprecations at the bottom?

<rekado>that file is so full of deprecationts already…

<civodul>sure :-)

<zimoun>civodul: thanks for the comments! Really helpful!

<civodul>zimoun: yw, i'm glad it's useful

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