Re: pandoc on cygwin's shell

[Florian Cramer <flrncrmr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Thanks a lot, Luis, for this workaround!

However, I still have trouble getting it work. My steps are the following:

1) Create a shell (wrapper) script that invokes pdfroff (respectively any 
other needed executable):


#!/bin/sh


/cygdrive/c/cygwin64/bin/pdfroff $*


Then compile this script into a Windows executable with shc:

shc -f pdfroff.sh

...rename the resulting executable pdfroff.sh.x to pdfroff.exe and move it 
into a directory inside c:\ProgramFiles . (I also tried /usr/local/bin and 
the current working directory.)

However, this is still doesn't work with pandoc; I still get the error 
message "pdfroff not found. Please select a different --pdf-engine or 
install pdfroff"



On Friday, May 25, 2018 at 6:17:07 PM UTC+2, Luis Rivera wrote:
>
>
>
> On Friday, 25 May 2018 06:16:36 UTC-5, Florian Cramer wrote:
>>
>> Is there some practical fix for this issue in the meantime? Linking the 
>> Cygwin tex binaries into a Windows system directory or something similar? 
>>
>> I've been struggling with this issue for quite a long time... (It also 
>> occurs when you try to use pdfroff as a backend for the PDF writer, with 
>> pdfroff being installed in Cygwin.)
>>
>>
> pdfroff is a shell program; so what I've done is to compile it into an 
> executable with Javier Rosales's shell compiler [shc](
> http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/~frosal/) and make pandoc happy: it checks for 
> and executable, it finds it, and then runs it. I've done the same for the 
> TeX family: originally, they are symiinks, so I wrapped the calls to each 
> of them (pdflatex, xelatex, lualatex) into shell programs and compiled 
> aliases accordingly.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
>

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