Re: [PATCH 00/11] Fix PDF doc builds on major distros

[Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 13:35:33 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:06:03 +0900
> Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> escreveu:
> 
>> How do you install xindy under AlmaLinux release 9.6 (Sage Margay),
>> Amazon Linux release 2023 (Amazon Linux), CentOS Stream release 9,
>> and the likes?
> 
> I didn't install it there. 
> 
> Yet, on some distros it seems that this is packaged together with
> a texlive collection package and it is called during pdf build. 
> 
> This was also causing font issues. So, I added an option at 
> latex_elements to ensure that, if used, it will request UTF-8 fonts:
> 
> 	latex_elements = {
> 	    # The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
> 	    "papersize": "a4paper",
> 	    "passoptionstopackages": dedent(r"""
> 	        \PassOptionsToPackage{svgnames}{xcolor}
> 	        % Avoid encoding troubles when creating indexes
> 	        \PassOptionsToPackage{xindy}{language=english,codepage=utf8,noautomatic}
> 	    """),
> 
> I just built manually on almalinux. There, all pdfs built fine:

Ah, xindy is optional then.  

Got it!

Sorry for the noise.

Akira