LaTeX compilation error

[phantomachine]

The latest revision on Atom LaTeX package seems to have broken something. I get a "LateX compilation error" warning. Then I checked: No error log produced. Nothing was run. To be sure, I compiled them directly outside of Atom using latexmk and it all works fine.

[wupeifan]

Same here. I use xelatex outside and it works fine.

[thomasjo]

Can both of you provide a minimal example that reliably reproduces the problem? Also I'll need information on your TeX distribution (TeX Live or MiKTeX).

[phantomachine]

Hello Thomas, I forgot to thank you for sharing such a nice module in Atom. I've been enjoying using it!

The problem arises on my Atom editor running on Linux Fedora Core 23, using either TexLive2014 or TeXLive2015. (I switched between both TeXLive distros to double check.)

Symptoms:

• It was working fine until two days ago (approx.) when I updated atom-latex and pdf-view (from v.0.48 to 0.50). I thought it might be pdf-view, but even after I disabled it, running Ctrl+alt-b on a clean test LaTeX file/folder produces nothing except for the red "LaTeX compilation error" warning on Atom, with no log and no other files being typeset by latexmk in the back-end.
• Also, on my Dell laptop running Centos 7, I also have the latest revision of atom-latex but the older pdf-view (v. 0.48) which still seems to work fine for all my LaTeX files.

Below is my example LaTeX document which runs fine either via latexmk or directly via latex commands on the bash terminal:

\documentclass[11pt]{article}

\usepackage{xifthen}
\newboolean{answer}
\setboolean{answer}{true}

 \usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows,calc}
\tikzset{
    %Define standard arrow tip
    >=stealth',
    %Define style for different line styles
    help lines/.style={dashed, thick},
    axis/.style={<->},
    important line/.style={thick},
    connection/.style={thick, dotted},
}


\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\IfFileExists{url.sty}{\usepackage{url}}
                      {\newcommand{\url}{\texttt}}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}

\usepackage{color,fancybox}


\setcounter{MaxMatrixCols}{10}

\setlength{\topmargin}{-1.0in}
\setlength{\textheight}{9.25in}
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.0in}
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{0.0in}
\setlength{\textwidth}{6.5in}
\def\labelenumi{\arabic{enumi}.}
\def\theenumi{\arabic{enumi}}
\def\labelenumii{(\alph{enumii})}
\def\theenumii{\alph{enumii}}
\def\p@enumii{\theenumi.}
\def\labelenumiii{\arabic{enumiii}.}
\def\theenumiii{\arabic{enumiii}}
\def\p@enumiii{(\theenumi)(\theenumii)}
\def\labelenumiv{\arabic{enumiv}.}
\def\theenumiv{\arabic{enumiv}}
\def\p@enumiv{\p@enumiii.\theenumiii}
\pagestyle{plain}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}
\parindent=2em

\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\lhead{}
\chead{}
\rhead{}
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{Page \ \thepage}
\footskip = 40pt
\headsep = 30pt

\newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}
\newtheorem{defn}{Definition}
\newtheorem{prop}{Proposition}
\newtheorem{lem}{Lemma}
\newtheorem{cor}{Corollary}
\newtheorem{ass}{Assumption}
\newtheorem{sol}{Solution}

\def\R{\mathbb{R}}

\def\N{\mathbb{N}}

\def\beq{\begin{equation}}
\def\eeq{\end{equation}}

\newcommand{\bol}{\begin{enumerate}}
\newcommand{\eol}{\end{enumerate}}
\newcommand{\bul}{\begin{itemize}}
\newcommand{\eul}{\end{itemize}}
\newcommand{\li}{\item}

% Answer box:
\newenvironment{abox}[2][\textbf{Answer Key $\triangleright$}]{\shadowbox{\begin{minipage}[b]{0.9\textwidth} #1 {\color{blue}#2} \ $\hfill \rule{0.5em}{0.5em}\blacktriangleleft$ \end{minipage}}}{}


\begin{document}

%% DRAFT WARNING
%\thisfancyput(4cm,-19cm){\Huge\bfseries\textcolor{red}{\rotatebox{45}{DO NOT DISTRIBUTE}}}

\begin{center}
\bigskip

\bigskip

\textbf{ECON1102\quad  \today}

\textbf{Problem Set 1: Introduction: What is Macro and How?}
\end{center}

\end{document}

[thomasjo]

@phantomachine Hmm, this is really odd. What version(s) of Atom are you using on the two machines?

[phantomachine]

Hi Thomas,

Up until just now I have:

• Desktop with Fedora 23: atom 1.0.16
• Laptop with Centos 7: atom 1.4.0

I have now updated my Fedora machine's atom version to 1.5.4 and latex works again. So there's just some backward compatibility issue. Thanks for your time looking into this. Have a great day!

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Thomas Johansen [email protected]
wrote:

@phantomachine https://github.com/phantomachine Hmm, this is really
odd. What version(s) of Atom are you using on the two machines?

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[thomasjo]

@phantomachine Really glad you resolved your problem! 😄

[wupeifan]

I updated my atom version to 1.6.0 and now it works. So I guess the issue is exactly like @phantomachine's.

[thomasjo]

@wupeifan Thanks for the update! Glad it's working again 😃