Config when latex is not on PATH

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Config when latex is not on PATH

awlayton opened this issue 4 years ago · comments

My latex is not visible on my PATH, but I configured the full location to latexmk in my CocConfig. However I still get an error about "Your Tex distribution cannot be detected". Is this intended? It seems like it should be able to just call the command I gave it...

Heyward Fann · Answer 1 · Tue Aug 25 2020 13:34:20 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

How do you config your latexmk in CocConfig?

Alex Layton · Answer 2 · Wed Aug 26 2020 01:26:42 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I added this to my CocConfig
"latex.build.executable": "/usr/local/texlive/2019/bin/x86_64-linux/latexmk",

Heyward Fann · Answer 3 · Wed Aug 26 2020 14:57:30 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Can you reproduce this issue with VSCode + https://github.com/latex-lsp/texlab-vscode? Looks like it's a TexLab issue.

Patrick Förster · Answer 4 · Mon Aug 31 2020 15:03:22 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

For now, you can safely ignore the message about your TeX distribution being not detected. Detecting the TeX distribution is not required to build a document. In fact, a TeX distribution in the PATH is only required for the following features:

Resolving things like \addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib} or \usepackage{mycustompackage}, where mycustompackage.sty is a local package which you installed or created on your own and is not part of the package index texlab ships with
Rendering math formulas (e. g. when hovering over \begin{equation})

All other features should work without a TeX distribution just fine.
We will convert this error message to a log message with warning level in the next version of texlab.