Hello everyone,
I’ve been trying to make draw chemical structures in Anki through latex using the chemfig package. I have edited my latex build process through the Edit Latex Build Process add-on. I have edited my Latex config for anki exactly according to a comment under the reddit post “How to get anki working with TikZ package? - For dummies”
When I ran the program I received an error,
Error executing /usr/bin/pdflatex.
Generated file: /tmp/anki_temp/tmp.tex
Have you installed latex and dvipng/dvisvgm?
I found it odd as I have already installed texlive googled about it and found a post on Apple stackexchange called "Anki + Latex not working : I have installed BasicTex + dvipng - Ask Different", which states that I have to add the full path to the latex, dvipng and all the other files, which I have done now. I changed the header of all of my note types according to the aforementioned reddit post as well.
My latex config in anki looks like this now
{
"pngCommands": [
[
"/usr/bin/latex",
"-interaction=nonstopmode",
"tmp.tex"
],
[
"/usr/bin/dvipng",
"-D",
"200",
"-T",
"tight",
"tmp.dvi",
"-o",
"tmp.png"
]
],
"svgCommands": [
[
"/usr/bin/pdflatex",
"-interaction=nonstopmode",
"tmp.tex"
],
[
"/usr/bin/pdf2svg",
"tmp.pdf",
"tmp-unscaled-svg"
],
[
"/usr/bin/rsvg-convert",
"--zoom=2",
"--format=svg",
"tmp-unscaled-svg",
"-o",
"tmp.svg"
]
]
}
When I try and add latex to a card ( e.g. - [latex]\chemfig{A ~ B}[\latex], which does compile in latex) I still get the same error. I have also confirmed the existence of all required files but it still doesn’t work.
I have tried to fix this issue for days now to no avail. Please help me.
I am running Anki 2.1.54 on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. I have installed Anki-ppd through the Ubuntu Software store through - Snap (Snap Store). Anki installed through sudo apt install anki doesn’t work for me as I cannot access the prefrences section due to some error.
I thank you in advance.