I was getting cryptic failed process errors while trying to use render and ultimately dug up the main.log file in the temporary directory and found some missing dependencies in my Tex installation. Should these be documented somewhere?
I'm using BasicTex through Homebrew (which is a minimal installation and requires using tlmgr to add anything extra). The dependencies I needed to install were:
standalone
svn-prov
luatex85
varwidth
lualatex-math
While I was going through the debugging process, I also thought it could be nice to wrap the process run in a try-catch to catch a failed process. If it was caught, the user could be pointed to the location of the main.log file (or it could be displayed to them) to give some insight to the problem.
All this being said, I didn't see any other issues here for render problems, so there may not be many of us with this issue. I'm guessing the above packages are part of TexLive and so most people won't have an issue.
I was getting cryptic
failed processerrors while trying to userenderand ultimately dug up themain.logfile in the temporary directory and found some missing dependencies in my Tex installation. Should these be documented somewhere?I'm using BasicTex through Homebrew (which is a minimal installation and requires using
tlmgrto add anything extra). The dependencies I needed to install were:standalonesvn-provluatex85varwidthlualatex-mathWhile I was going through the debugging process, I also thought it could be nice to wrap the process run in a
try-catchto catch a failed process. If it was caught, the user could be pointed to the location of themain.logfile (or it could be displayed to them) to give some insight to the problem.All this being said, I didn't see any other issues here for
renderproblems, so there may not be many of us with this issue. I'm guessing the above packages are part of TexLive and so most people won't have an issue.