Peter Williams

Thanks for the report! This problem might be a bit tricky for Tectonic. You're right that Tectonic doesn't allow shell escapes inside the engine, in the name of reproducibility. There...

Hmmm ... maybe try blowing away `~/.cache/Tectonic/formats` ? If you have preexisting copies of those files, I think they'll be invalid, and the code may not be clever enough to...

Awesome! It's good to have a workaround, although it's not exactly easy. Here are some directions that Tectonic could go from here to help prevent this problem or make it...

With some of the recent infrastructural changes, the way to do this has evolved slightly ... hopefully in a way that makes it more likely to be successful! Here is...

Thank you for following up! Out of curiosity, what memory setting was big enough for you? We don't want to be excessive, but on modern machines it might not be...

@mnrvwl Thank you for investigating this issue (and many others; I have been letting the backlog build up but aim to follow up on various things as best I can)....

Does this happen with the US Letter paper size? Tectonic hardcodes US Letter in some aspects that I can imagine might affect things.

Yes, we are due for an update! I am also pretty slammed these days, but @spl, if you encounter any issues with the docs about how to create a new...

It might be possible to work around this, but in general, Tectonic (and XeTeX upon which it's based) create PDF files without any intermediate PostScript stage, so PostScript-related packages tend...

Thanks for your suggestion! So, the current V2 model is heavily inspired by the Rust/Cargo framework, which is definitely oriented around the idea that it's helpful to have the outputs...