pdflatex fails when parsing dollar signs
by slac-in-the-box from LinuxQuestions.org on (#56VD9)
Howdy Slackers
First of all, pdflatex works fine on full-install slackware64-current.
But on a slackware based server with minimal packages on it, that is being used to parse the parameters posted from an html form into a latex file, convert it to pdf with pdflatex, and then email it to someone with sendmail, the server was creating pdfs and sending them as expected, until I included a table that has dollar signs in it.
I know that dollar signs are a special latex symbol that needs to be escaped. But even escaped, I get this error:Code:!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file cm-super-ts1.enc): cannot open encoding file for
reading
==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!This page says cm-super is a family of fonts. This makes sense, as the minimal server is not loaded with all the fonts. I'm trying to find which of slackware's font packages contains this "cm-super" font family.
slackpkg file-search hasn't yielded anything.
On the full-install pdflatex outputs dollarsigns correctly, so I used "find" to search /usr for cm-super-ts1.enc, with no results yielded.
Looks like more trial-and-error, one package at a time -- save me.
First of all, pdflatex works fine on full-install slackware64-current.
But on a slackware based server with minimal packages on it, that is being used to parse the parameters posted from an html form into a latex file, convert it to pdf with pdflatex, and then email it to someone with sendmail, the server was creating pdfs and sending them as expected, until I included a table that has dollar signs in it.
I know that dollar signs are a special latex symbol that needs to be escaped. But even escaped, I get this error:Code:!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file cm-super-ts1.enc): cannot open encoding file for
reading
==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!This page says cm-super is a family of fonts. This makes sense, as the minimal server is not loaded with all the fonts. I'm trying to find which of slackware's font packages contains this "cm-super" font family.
slackpkg file-search hasn't yielded anything.
On the full-install pdflatex outputs dollarsigns correctly, so I used "find" to search /usr for cm-super-ts1.enc, with no results yielded.
Looks like more trial-and-error, one package at a time -- save me.