Simple Life: February 2022

Installation with pacman

texlive-bin
texlive-core
texlive-fontsextra
texlive-formatsextra
texlive-langchinese
texlive-latexextra
texlive-pictures

texdoc

install

yay texlive-most-doc
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=241012

"No texlive.tlpdb nor shipped tlpdb data found"

texdoc (user manual) use TEXMFROOT/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb (TEXMFROOT=/usr/share) but archlinux doesn't have it
Solution 1: install extra AUR package: yay texlive-tlpdb
Solution 2: use local tlpdb

tlmgr install --with-doc xxx

font

mkdir font folder: .local/share/fonts/
install Ericsson and chinese font

./.local/share/fonts/ericsson/EricssonHilda-Medium.ttf
./.local/share/fonts/ericsson/EricssonTechnicalIcons-Regular.ttf
./.local/share/fonts/ericsson/EricssonHilda-Regular.ttf
./.local/share/fonts/ericsson/EricssonCapitalTT.ttf
./.local/share/fonts/ericsson/EricssonHilda-Light.ttf
./.local/share/fonts/ericsson/EricssonHilda-Bold.ttf
./.local/share/fonts/windows/simhei.ttf
./.local/share/fonts/windows/simkai.ttf
./.local/share/fonts/windows/simfang.ttf
./.local/share/fonts/windows/simsunb.ttf

tex/latex/pdflatex need TFM files for all fonts.
XeTeX and LuaTeX have no need of TFM files for TrueType and OpenType fonts which contain the necessary metrics.
see link

tlmgr

set in .bashrc

alias tlmgr='TEXMFDIST/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl --usermode'

use Tsinghua mirror

tlmgr option repository https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet

install texlive 2021 package when texlive 2022 is released

tlmgr option repository https://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/tug/historic/systems/texlive/2020/tlnet-final
tlmgr install xxx
or tlmgr install xxx --repository https://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/tug/historic/systems/texlive/2020/tlnet-final

repository

default: default package repository found in the installation's TeX Live Package Database (a.k.a. the TLPDB, which is given entirely in the file tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb (for example ~/texmf/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb)
set in command line: tlmgr option repository https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet
set in configuration file: make a permanent change, use option repository (see the "option" action).

correct script error

First, edit TEXMFDIST/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl and replace $Master ="$Master/../.."; with $Master = "${Master}/../../..";. The path prefix TEXMFDIST is not a predefined environment variable, it is defined below in this article. Replace it with the correct value.

system configuration

tlmgr conf

TEXMFCONFIG=/home/hongy19/.texlive/texmf-config
TEXMFDBS={!!/usr/local/share/texmf:/usr/share/texmf,!!/etc/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-dist}
TEXMFDIST=/usr/share/texmf-dist
TEXMFHOME=/home/hongy19/texmf
TEXMFLOCAL=/usr/local/share/texmf:/usr/share/texmf
TEXMFMAIN=/usr/share/texmf-dist
TEXMFSYSCONFIG=/etc/texmf
TEXMFSYSVAR=/var/lib/texmf
TEXMFVAR=/home/hongy19/.texlive/texmf-var

error in tlmgr check file

(base) [hongy19@CN-00000988 ~]$ tlmgr check files
Files present but not covered (relative to /home/hongy19/texmf):
tex/generic/pgf/tikzlibrarytimeline/tikzlibrarytimeline.code.tex
web2c/tlmgr-commands.log
web2c/tlmgr.log
tlmgr.pl: An error has occurred. See above messages. Exiting.
(base) [hongy19@CN-00000988 ~]$ pacman -Qi texlive-core
Name : texlive-core
Version : 2021.61403-1
(base) [hongy19@CN-00000988 ~]$ tlmgr --version
tlmgr revision 60693 (2021-10-04 04:24:25 +0200)
tlmgr using installation: /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/../../..
--package-logfile *file* "tlmgr" logs all package actions (install, remove, update, failed updates, failed restores) to a separate log file, by default "TEXMFSYSVAR/web2c/tlmgr.log". This option allows you to specify a different file for the log.
--command-logfile *file* "tlmgr" logs the output of all programs invoked (mktexlr, mtxrun, fmtutil, updmap) to a separate log file, by default "TEXMFSYSVAR/web2c/tlmgr-commands.log". This option allows you to specify a different file for the log.
when tlmgr running in user mode, log is stored in TEXMFHOME/web2c, not TEXMFSYSVAR/web2c

if ($opts{"usermode"}) {
$packagelogfile ||= "$::maintree/web2c/tlmgr.log";
} else {
$packagelogfile ||= "$texmfsysvar/web2c/tlmgr.log";
}

Kpathsea, TEXMFDBS and mktexlsr

Kpathsea/kpsewhich use TEXINPUTS as search path
Kpathsea/kpsewhich use ls-R database first, if no such database, it will search folder.
ls-R database

recommended way to create and maintain ‘ls-R’ is to run the mktexlsr
TEXMFDBS used for ls-R

TEXMFDBS ={!!/usr/local/share/texmf:/usr/share/texmf,!!/etc/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-dist}

TEXMFDBS doesn't include TEXMFHOME which is searched for without ls-R files present. kpsewhich could still find document in TEXMFHOME

search document: kpsewhich -all markdown.sty

TLPDB (texlive.tlpdb)

tlpdb stands for tex live package data base, it is the main control file for the texlive package installation, it lists every package in texlive and whether you have it installed or not, which texlive mirror repository you use and lots of other details. The texlive installation seems broken if it is not there
texlive.tlpdb on ctan is no use, the file is a local file that records which packages are installed on that machine it should be
tlmgr init-usertree to generate texlive.tlpdb

local texmf tree: TEXMFHOME

https://www.ugr.es/~ftorralbo/blog/programming/local-texmf/
mkdir /home/hongy19/texmf

confirm TEXMFHOME path: kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME

tlmgr init-usertree

This creates *usertree*"/web2c" and *usertree*"/tlpkg/tlpobj", and a minimal *usertree*"/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb".

no need to run mktexlsr to create ls-R

latexmk

copy .latexmkrc into ~

markdown

tlmgr install markdown
xelatex --shell-escape markdown.tex
add "\def\markdownOptionOutputDir{/tmp}" if Latex renders "Script file ./input.markdown.lua not found" error into pdf, see link

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