I think I'm missing something in my machine to run it but I don't know what. about labella.py HOT 9 CLOSED

Hi @ChelsyMena, thanks for reporting this issue. I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble getting the code to work. Do you have a working Latex installation on your system, including latexmk? As that is what is used to create the Tex time line.

You might be able to test this by running:

>>> from labella.tex import text_dimensions
>>> text_dimensions("foo", silent=False)

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Hello,

What is meant by: Do you have a working Latex installation on your system, including latexmk??

Besides pip install latexmk.py, what else constitutes "installation"?

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Wow..heck of a set of pre-req's for Windows.

From https://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/support/latexmk/INSTALL:

1.  Make sure you have working installations of Perl and TeX/LaTeX,    
    complete with viewers for dvi, postscript and/or pdf files.  You will
    also need whatever packages your document needs.

2.  If necessary, unpack the latexmk distribution.  

3.  **Difference compared with UNIX-type systems**: Copy the file
    latexmk.pl to a suitable directory (your choice), and arrange for it to
    be invoked as a command.  (If you don't know how to do this, find out
    about "executable extension for perl on windows", by a web search.) 

For those who come after, looking for Windows 10 instructions:

Determine if Perl is installed

• Add / Remove Programs
• Search for "Perl"
• No results

Download Perl for Windows 10

• Go to perl.org and download
  • Went with "Strawberry Perl"
  • Select 32 vs 64 bit
• Install:
  • Next
  • Accept
  • Next
  • Select location C:\Strawberry\
  • Install
  • Approve
    • (takes a fair amount of time to download!)
  • Finish

Determine if "TeX/LaTeX" is installed

• Add / Remove Programs
• Search for "TeX" and "LaTeX"
• No results

Download TeX/LaTeX for Windows 10

• Visit to https://miktex.org/download
• Download
• Accept
• Next
• Install for me or all users?
• Next
• Select location: C:\Users\<you>\AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX
• Next
• Set:
  • Preferred paper: A4 and
  • Install missing packages on-the-fly: Ask me first
• Next
• Start
  • (takes a fair amount of time to download too!)
• Next
• Check for updates now: Checked
• Next
• Close

Download the latexmk package from MiKTeX

• Open MiKTeX
• You'll probably get a popup stating "Check for updates"
  • Click Ok
• OPTIONAL:
  • Click Updates tab
  • Check for updates
  • WARNING: I have no idea what these are packages are doing. DO NOT download them until you know they are safe
• Click Packages tab
• In the search bar, type latexmk
• Hit Enter
• Select latexmk
• Click the + icon
• Ok
• When download is complete, click Close

Test PATH variable

• Open a cmd/PowerShell/etc terminal
• Type latexmk -h
• If the results are an error like this:
  • The latexmk package (program?) added in previous step must be added to your PATH variable

latexmk : The term 'latexmk' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, 
function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or  
if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ latexmk -h
+ ~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (latexmk:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

Place latexmk in the Users' PATH variable

• Click Windows button on keyboard
• Type env
• Select the result Edit environment variables for your account
  • NOTE: This only installs the program for the particular User (You!)
  • You may want to read-up on User vs. System env variables before setting the System PATH env var
• Click Environment Variables
• Under User variables for <yourUserName>, double click the Path variable
• Click New
• Unless you change it, MiKTeX installs packages in the following directory.
  • C:\Users\<you>\AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX\miktex\bin\x64
  • Add \latexmk.exe to the above path and paste the whole exe path into the new field
  • Should be: C:\Users\<you>\AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX\miktex\bin\x64\latexmk.exe
• IMPORTANT: CLOSE THEN OPEN (RESTART) YOUR TERMINAL WINDOW
  • There isn't a (easy) way to source bash.rc your Windows cmd terminal.
  • You must close/reopen the terminal for the PATH environmental variable to be refreshed
    • For the morbidly curious

Verify PATH variable

• Open a new cmd/PowerShell/etc terminal
• Type latexmk -h
• Results should look like this:

Latexmk 4.76: Automatic LaTeX document generation routine

Usage: latexmk [latexmk_options] [filename ...]

  Latexmk_options:
   -aux-directory=dir or -auxdir=dir 
                 - set name of directory for auxiliary files (aux, log)


                 - Currently this only works with MiKTeX

...<con't>...

  Run latexmk
with the option -showextraoptions to see a list of these

Report bugs etc to John Collins <jcc8 at psu.edu>.

Additional cleanup

• When you initially try to run your Python script (say python .\timeline.py), you will get an notification from MiKTeX:
• 
• Click Install
• CTRL+z the execution of your script
• Rerun python .\timeline.py
• If you're using the examples, ls should yield a .pdf, '.svg, and a .tex file
• PDF:
• 
• SVG:
• 
• TEX:
• 

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I also have MiKTeX added to PATH variable. Still getting FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified.

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RE: Pull Request:

• I'd probably just PR the README.md and add
• "For Windows instructions, see here".

I have to actually see if this tool is going to work for my use case!

Thank you!

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