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I was converting 'lecture1.md' file I made via Rstudio into 'lecture1.pdf'
using Pandoc at Mac Terminal.
and I got this error message :
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \tightlist
l.213 \end{frame}
pandoc: Error producing PDF from TeX source
make: *** [lecture1.pdf] Error 43
What's strange thing is the same procedure with same files works with my colleague's computer.
Anyone's any comments would be helpful, and I'd appreciate them.
Short answer: no.
Long answer:
The only ways an automated script can know that the output should contain the word "Proof" are:
1) This knowledge is hardcoded in the script. It knows about the meaning of some latex commands and environments (the via taken by pandoc)
2) It can run tex code and get the output (via taken by t4ht, for example)
The first approach is not flexible enough, since you can load packages which are not known by the script, and which define commands that will be ignored (in addition, your document can define your own commands too).
The second approach can be done via pdflatex followed by some "pdf to text" converter, or via latex followed by dvi2tty, or via tex4ht. In any case, it loses the original tex markup, and then is not appropiate if you want to keep the "code" of the math formulae.
Let's see an example. Consider the following document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{nopageno} % No page numbers
\usepackage{amsthm}
\begin{document}
\begin{proof}
This is a proof
\[
\sum_{i=0}^\infty x^2
\]
\end{proof}
\end{document}
Running it through standard pdflatex you get:
If you run it through pandoc, you get the following .txt:
This is a proof $$\sum_{i=0}^\infty x^2$$
in which you lost the word "Proof", and the final end-of-proof mark, but it keeps the formula markup.
If you run it through pdflatex and then pdftotxt you get:
Proof. This is a proof
∞
x2
i=0
which keeps the word "Proof", but completly messes the formula
If you run it through latex and then dvi2tty, you get:
Proof. This is a proof
1X
x2
i=0
|___|
Which is closer to the pdf output, but still loses the formula markup.
If you run it through tex4ht you get an HTML version of the document, which can be in turn processed by pandoc to get the following .txt:
Proof. This is a proof ∞ ∑ i=0 x2 \_\_
As you can see, none of the solutions is satisfactory.
If you're using Windows, take a look at Word2TeX by Chikrii
Best Answer
The
writer.latexfile in Pandoc's source code currently defines\tightlistas:This is also currently the case in the default LaTeX template, from the
jgm/pandoc-templatesproject on Github.For posterity, here is a link to the most up-to-date LaTeX default template: