Verbosity?

[hebertodelrio]

Is there any way to 'see' all the steps that quarto is going through when it runs? In order to figure out where a problem is occurring without know all the details of the design is to follow the important steps of the process.

For example, when a PDF file is produced from a QMD file, an IPYNB is produced, does an MD is produced? does pandoc calls tex to produce the PDF file? where are the auxiliary files stored? Can they be kept? etc.

Many of the issues in this discussion can be more easily debugged/treated if we were to have all these answers.

I hope someone from the quarto teams sees this post

[rgaiacs]

Is there any way to 'see' all the steps that quarto is going through when it runs?

Yes. You can use

format:
  html:
    keep-md: true
    keep-ipynb: true
  pdf:
    keep-md: true
    keep-ipynb: true
    keep-tex: true
  docx:
    keep-md: true
    keep-ipynb: true

in the YAML.

For example, when a PDF file is produced from a QMD file, an IPYNB is produced, does an MD is produced?

My understanding is that for a .qmd file with Python code using Jupyter instead of knitr + reticulate, Quarto will do something like .qmd > .ipynb (with output of code cells) > .md > .tex > .pdf.

does pandoc calls tex to produce the PDF file?

Yes. The PDF files are generated using LaTeX.

[hebertodelrio]

Do you know where are the auxiliary files created by the Tex engine saved?

aux
log
etc, etc, etc

When I include the metadata you suggested:

---
title: TLMGR Problems
format:
  html:
    keep-md: true
    keep-ipynb: true
  pdf:
    keep-md: true
    keep-ipynb: true
    keep-tex: true
  docx:
    keep-md: true
    keep-ipynb: true
---

**Hello World!**

```{python}
d="Hello World!"
```

The following files are created:
-rw-r--r-- 1 heberto staff 8480 Aug 3 21:35 minimaltest.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 heberto staff 1270 Aug 3 21:35 minimaltest.ipynb
-rw-r--r-- 1 heberto staff 392 Aug 3 21:35 minimaltest.md
drwxr-xr-x 1 heberto staff 36 Aug 3 21:35 minimaltest_files

The last one is a directory that contains three directories inside:
drwxr-xr-x 1 heberto staff 36 Aug 3 21:35 figure-pdf
drwxr-xr-x 1 heberto staff 36 Aug 3 21:35 libs
drwxr-xr-x 1 heberto staff 36 Aug 3 21:35 mediabag

But none of the contains any of the auxiliary files created by TeX, which is a problem because at running

% quarto render minimaltest.qmd

Starting python3 kernel...Done

Executing 'minimaltest.ipynb'
  Cell 1/1...Done

pandoc
  to: html
  output-file: minimaltest.html
  standalone: true
  section-divs: true
  html-math-method: mathjax
  wrap: none
  default-image-extension: png

metadata
  document-css: false
  link-citations: true
  date-format: long
  lang: en
  title: TLMGR Problems


Starting python3 kernel...Done

Executing 'minimaltest.ipynb'
  Cell 1/1...Done

pandoc
  to: latex
  output-file: minimaltest.tex
  standalone: true
  pdf-engine: xelatex
  variables:
    graphics: true
    tables: true
  default-image-extension: pdf

metadata
  documentclass: scrartcl
  classoption:
    - DIV=11
    - numbers=noendperiod
  papersize: letter
  header-includes:
    - '\KOMAoption{captions}{tableheading}'
  block-headings: true
  title: TLMGR Problems

running xelatex - 1
  This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-0.999994 (TeX Live 2022) (preloaded format=xelatex)
   restricted \write18 enabled.
  entering extended mode

updating tlmgr

updating existing packages

compilation failed- missing packages (automatic installation failed)

tlmgr is not able to create a PDF file since it fails to update some packages, that so far are unknown to me, which is why I am trying to figure out where the auxiliary files are saved, if they are. No PDF since it does not create a TeX file either.

[dragonstyle]

They would be in the same directory as the source qmd (with the tex file). Is there a tex file there?

[rgaiacs]

I have the following files

_quarto.yml:

project:
  title: "testlatex"

format:
  pdf:
    keep-md: true
    keep-ipynb: true
    keep-tex: true

testlatex.qmd

---
title: "testlatex"
---

## Quarto

Quarto enables you to weave together content and executable code into a finished document. To learn more about Quarto see <https://quarto.org>.

When I build it using RStudio IDE, I get

pandoc 
  to: latex
  output-file: testlatex.tex
  standalone: true
  pdf-engine: xelatex
  variables:
    graphics: true
    tables: true
  default-image-extension: pdf
  
metadata
  documentclass: scrartcl
  classoption:
    - DIV=11
    - numbers=noendperiod
  papersize: letter
  header-includes:
    - '\KOMAoption{captions}{tableheading}'
  block-headings: true
  title: testlatex
  
running xelatex - 1

No TeX installation was detected.

Please run 'quarto install tool tinytex' to install TinyTex.
If you prefer, you may install TexLive or another TeX distribution.


Exited with status 1.

I know. I don't have LaTeX in my machine. But the files were created:

$ ls . -1
_quarto.yml
testlatex_files/
testlatex.md
testlatex.qmd
testlatex.Rproj
testlatex.tex

@dragonstyle could you

• provide the output of quarto check
• provide the output of quarto tools check
• make sure that you have the following LaTeX package installed in your machine?

$ grep usepackage testlatex.tex | sort
\IfFileExists{bookmark.sty}{\usepackage{bookmark}}{\usepackage{hyperref}}
\IfFileExists{footnotehyper.sty}{\usepackage{footnotehyper}}{\usepackage{footnote}}
\IfFileExists{upquote.sty}{\usepackage{upquote}}{}
\IfFileExists{xurl.sty}{\usepackage{xurl}}{} % add URL line breaks if available
\@ifpackageloaded{caption}{}{\usepackage{caption}}
\@ifpackageloaded{caption}{}{\usepackage{caption}}
\@ifpackageloaded{float}{}{\usepackage{float}}
\@ifpackageloaded{subcaption}{}{\usepackage{subcaption}}
\@ifpackageloaded{tcolorbox}{}{\usepackage[many]{tcolorbox}}
  \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}}\usepackage{longtable,booktabs,array}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage{calc} % for calculating minipage widths
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{iftex}
\usepackage{lmodern}
  \usepackage[]{microtype}
    \usepackage{parskip}
  \usepackage{selnolig}  % disable illegal ligatures
  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  \usepackage{textcomp} % provide euro and other symbols
  \usepackage{unicode-math}
  \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{xcolor}

[hebertodelrio]

quarto check output

[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.0.37
      Path: /Users/heberto/Applications/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.10.5 (Conda)
      Path: /Users/heberto/opt/miniconda3/envs/quarto/bin/python
      Jupyter: 4.11.1
      Kernels: julia-1.7, python3

[✓] Checking Jupyter engine render....OK

[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
      Version: 4.2.0
      Path: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources
      LibPaths:
        - /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2/Resources/library
      rmarkdown: 2.14

[✓] Checking Knitr engine render......OK

quarto tools check output

[✓] Inspecting tools

Tool         Status            Installed     Latest
chromium     Not installed     ---           869685
tinytex      Up to date        v2022.08      v2022.08

Every single package in that list is installed in my system, I did a manual check up using tlmgr, but still there is no TeX, nor PDF, none any auxiliary files

When I ran the command quarto render minimaltest.qmd --to pdf the following file was produced:

This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-0.999994 (TeX Live 2022) (preloaded format=xelatex 2022.8.3)  3 AUG 2022 23:33
entering extended mode
 restricted \write18 enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
**minimaltest.tex
! Emergency stop.
<*> minimaltest.tex
                    
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 2 strings out of 477844
 21 string characters out of 5845146
 299345 words of memory out of 5000000
 21047 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+600000
 469259 words of font info for 28 fonts, out of 8000000 for 9000
 14 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
 0i,0n,0p,1b,6s stack positions out of 10000i,1000n,20000p,200000b,200000s

No pages of output.

[rgaiacs]

Thanks for the details.

I don't know why Quarto is not creating the .tex neither why XeTeX is stopping for you. :-(