I've installed TeX Live and Visual Studio Code with the LaTeX Workshop extension. Previously, I'd installed LyX. VSCode is looking at the LyX installation. I know this because I had an error complaining it couldn't find a library and it listed the LyX install directory. When I copied the folder from TeX Live to LyX's directory, that error went away. The problem is, I would prefer to use TeX Live. It already has packages I need installed. How can I get VSCode and the LaTeX extension to look at the TeX Live directory? I've looked at the settings and don't see anything that sets that path.
EDIT: I've tried following the information on James Wu's page but I am new to LaTeX and not succeeding. Note that I'm trying to follow instructions given here to format a poem. I am using the example from that article for my test.
My recipe is:
[ {
"name": "latexmk ",
"tools": [
"latexmk"
] }, { "name": "latexmk",
"command": "latexmk",
"args": [
"-synctex=1",
"-interaction=nonstopmode",
"-file-line-error",
"-pdf",
"-outdir=%OUTDIR%",
"%DOC%"
],
"env": {"TEXMFHOME": "c:/texlive/2019"} } ]
The errors I am getting are:
Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 26 Dec. 2019, version: 4.67.
Latexmk: Changing directory to 'c:/Users/tuata/OneDrive/Documents/'
Rule 'pdflatex': The following rules & subrules became out-of-date:
'pdflatex'
------------ Run number 1 of rule 'pdflatex'
------------
------------ Running 'pdflatex --max-print-line=10000 -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -file-line-error -recorder -output-directory="c:/Users/tuata/OneDrive/Documents" "texsample.tex"'
------------ Latexmk: applying rule 'pdflatex'... This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.19 (MiKTeX 2.9.6630) entering extended
mode (c:/Users/tuata/OneDrive/Documents/texsample.tex LaTeX2e
<2017-04-15> Babel <3.18> and hyphenation patterns for 75 language(s)
loaded.
c:/Users/tuata/OneDrive/Documents/texsample.tex:1: LaTeX Error:
There's no line here to end.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H
<return> for immediate help
c:/Users/tuata/OneDrive/Documents/texsample.tex:1: LaTeX Error:
Missing \begin{document}.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H
<return> for immediate help
Overfull \hbox (20.0pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 1--5 []
c:/Users/tuata/OneDrive/Documents/texsample.tex:6: LaTeX Error:
There's no line here to end.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H
<return> for immediate help
c:/Users/tuata/OneDrive/Documents/texsample.tex:6: LaTeX Error:
Missing \begin{document}.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H
<return> for immediate help
Overfull \hbox (20.0pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 6--26 []
c:/Users/tuata/OneDrive/Documents/texsample.tex:27: LaTeX Error:
There's no line here to end.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H
<return> for immediate help
c:/Users/tuata/OneDrive/Documents/texsample.tex:27: LaTeX Error:
Missing \begin{document}.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. Type H
<return> for immediate help ) ! Emergency stop ! ==> Fatal error
occurred, no output PDF file produced! Transcript written on
c:/Users\tuata\OneDrive\Documents\texsample.log. Latexmk: Summary of
warnings from last run of (pdf)latex: =====Latex reported missing or
unavailable character(s).
=====See log file for details. Collected error summary (may duplicate other messages): pdflatex: Command for 'pdflatex' gave return code 1
Refer to 'c:/Users/tuata/OneDrive/Documents/texsample.log' for details Latexmk: Undoing directory change
=== TeX engine is 'pdfTeX' Latexmk: Errors, so I did not complete making targets Latexmk: Use the -f option to force complete
processing, unless error was exceeding maximum runs, or warnings
treated as errors.
Here is the sample code I am using:
\\poemtitle{Pied Beauty}
\\begin{poem}
\\begin{stanza}
G\\textsc{lory} be to God for dappled things--- \\verseline
\\verseindent For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; \\verseline
\\verseindent\\verseindent For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;\\verseline
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;\\verseline
\\verseindent Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;\\verseline
\\verseindent\\verseindent And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.\\verseline
\\end{stanza}
\\begin{stanza}
All things counter, original, spare, strange;\\verseline
\\verseindent Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)\\verseline
\\verseindent\\verseindent With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;\\verseline
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:\\verseline
\\versephantom{He fathers-}Praise him.
\\end{stanza}
\\end{poem}
\\documentclass{article}or\documentclass{article}? – DG' Jan 31 '20 at 06:08