total page number is ???

[petaflot]

I've been playing with the complex report example... I noticed the total number of pages in the footer is often (but not always) set to '???' instead of an actual number.

I have not been able to figure out what causes it to work or fail.

[JelteF]

Install latexmk: https://jeltef.github.io/PyLaTeX/latest/faq.html#frequently-asked-questions

[petaflot]

works with default engine, not with xelatex or lualatex.

but default engine has very poor unicode support :-/

[JelteF]

You can make latexmk use luatex or xelatax under the hood by using the -luatex or -xelatex flag. See this issue for an example: https://github.com/JelteF/PyLaTeX/issues/105

On Mon, 5 Jul 2021, 00:03 Engrenage, @.***> wrote:

works with default engine, not with xelatex or lualatex.

but default engine has very poor unicode support :-/

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[petaflot]

I have tried a few things, such as

doc.generate_pdf(destFilename, clean=True, compiler = 'latexmk -f -xelatex -interaction=nonstopmode -output-directory=' + output_dir, extra_compiler_args = "--xelatex")
doc.generate_pdf(destFilename, clean=True, compiler = 'latexmk', extra_compiler_args = "--xelatex")

and got output like

pylatex.errors.CompilerError: No LaTex compiler was found
TypeError: generate_pdf() got an unexpected keyword argument 'extra_compiler_args'

as far as I'm concerned, the issue is not resolved :-/

[petaflot]

since subprocess is being used and requires commands and args to be in a list, I'm not surprised. Data on #105 is obviously obsolete.

[JelteF]

This should do it (note compiler_args instead of extra_compiler_args, and passing in a list):

doc.generate_pdf(destFilename, clean=True, compiler = 'latexmk', compiler_args = ["--xelatex"])

This is also document here: https://jeltef.github.io/PyLaTeX/current/pylatex/pylatex.document.html#pylatex.document.Document.generate_pdf