Hello,
I’d like to use the venerable pandoc to convert some word docx to PDF. So I installed pandoc and then ran: pandoc myfile.docx -o myfile.pdf and got:
pdflatex not found. Please select a different --pdf-engine or install pdflatex
After some fiddling, I installed tetex and that seemed to help, but then came to a new error:
Error producing PDF.
! LaTeX Error: File `ifxetex.sty' not found.
Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
Enter file name:
! Emergency stop.
<read *>
l.10 \ifnum
After some research, I came to find TexLive - NixOS Wiki, which has a table with an entry:
Scheme-small nixpkgs.texlive.combined.scheme-small contains everything in the basic scheme + xetex, metapost, a few languages.
That includes xetex (mentioned in the error and other pages like
Then I installed texlive.combined.scheme-small, but I still see the same error.
Even with the full package, I am still seeing the same error.
I can build the PDF using -t html and wkhtmltopdf, but the PDF that results isn’t correct.
How should I install/use latex with pandoc to render PDF properly?
Thank you!