Not available to render example qmd file without installing additional components

[jhk0530]

Hi, thanks for nice work.

Problem

Recently I tried to use this template for practice my self.

Here's what I did.

1. install and load template using command quarto use tempalte dfolio/quarto-ieee
2. Just render ieee.qmd with Rstudio

However, this will return error message:

LaTeX Error: File orcidlink.sty not found.

Solution

and I found solution to solve this problem.

1. install tinytex via Console: tinytex::install_tinytex(), then check whether result of tinytex::is_tinytex() is TRUE
2. install orcidlink.sty via Console using tinytex

tinytex::parse_packages(
    text = "! LaTeX Error: File `orcidlink.sty' not found."
)

and it will return 'orcidlink' like below image

3. and then render qmd file again and it will work.

I think this process added into readme, this template will look much better. (If you don't mind i'll modify this and make PR)

Thanks.

Kim

[dfolio]

Thank you for reporting this issue

As reported on quarto issue 877

Are you using TeX Live ? Automatic installation would be disabled if not using TeX Live as LaTeX distribution, or explicitly opt-out.
Quarto uses by default a Quarto engine that does try to install missing dependencies (https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/pdf-engine.html#quarto-pdf-engine)

Initially, I didn't use TeX Live, but the packages that came with my Linux distribution. After switching to TeX Live, I don't have this problem anymore.
Second, to limit this problem, I explicitly set latex-auto-install: true in the _extension.yml. So it is surprising that such an issue still occurs.
So I guess this issue might be related to that.

[jhk0530]

My understanding is that
If I use quarto's default pdf engine (not TexLive or TinyTex), I won't have any problems.
Is that correct?

and As an additional dumb question 😅
Is it possible to just uninstall tinytex with a command

quarto uninstall tinytex

to use the default engine?

Thanks for kind response.

Kim.