I am trying to install babel-icelandic for correct hyphenation of words in Rmarkdown. I've followed the directions here:
yet I still don't get correctly hyphenated words.
I get an error message about hyphen-icelandic (see below), yet I've also installed that through the shell.
Error message:
tlmgr install hyphen-icelandic
(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
Unknown directive ...containerchecksum 57a177b65450718631f36bfd8db0f2d1bff788f3bf147137b6412714cc945c7e08832f14f9e7e659adf7e072a91f13a2ea27fe3161cd9b60313bc956f1f543c6... , please fix it! at /usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm line 210, <$retfh> line 5924.
tlmgr update --self
(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
Unknown directive ...containerchecksum 57a177b65450718631f36bfd8db0f2d1bff788f3bf147137b6412714cc945c7e08832f14f9e7e659adf7e072a91f13a2ea27fe3161cd9b60313bc956f1f543c6... , please fix it! at /usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm line 210, <$retfh> line 5924.
fmtutil [ERROR]: format directory not writable: /var/lib/texmf/web2c
tlmgr install hyphen-icelandic
(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
Unknown directive ...containerchecksum 57a177b65450718631f36bfd8db0f2d1bff788f3bf147137b6412714cc945c7e08832f14f9e7e659adf7e072a91f13a2ea27fe3161cd9b60313bc956f1f543c6... , please fix it! at /usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm line 210, <$retfh> line 5924.
(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
tlmgr: action `path' not supported in usermode!
Output created: skilaverkefni2.pdf
Warning message:
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were preloaded for
(babel) the language `Icelandic' into the format.
(babel) Please, configure your TeX system to add them and
(babel) rebuild the format. Now I will use the patterns
(babel) preloaded for english instead on input line 54.
The example was installing babel-spanish, if you replace that with hyphen-icelandic what happens?
rstudio-user@application-1753700-deployment-4935334-b4b9t:/cloud/project$ tlmgr init-usertree
(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
tlmgr: action init-usertree returned a warning.
rstudio-user@application-1753700-deployment-4935334-b4b9t:/cloud/project$ tlmgr option repository ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2015/tlnet-final
(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
tlmgr: setting default package repository to ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2015/tlnet-final
rstudio-user@application-1753700-deployment-4935334-b4b9t:/cloud/project$ tlmgr --usermode --no-persistent-downloads install hyphen-icelandic
(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
TeX Live 2015 is frozen forever and will no
longer be updated. This happens in preparation for a new release.
If you're interested in helping to pretest the new release (when
pretests are available), please read http://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html.
Otherwise, just wait, and the new release will be ready in due time.
tlmgr: package repository ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2015/tlnet-final
[1/2, ??:??/??:??] install: hyph-utf8 [1002k]
[2/2, 00:02/00:02] install: hyphen-icelandic [1k]
tlmgr: package log updated: /home/rstudio-user/texmf/web2c/tlmgr.log
running mktexlsr ...
done running mktexlsr.
regenerating language.dat
TLUtils::_create_config_files: /home/rstudio-user/texmf/texmf-dist/tex/generic/config/language.us: head file not found,ok in user modeCannot open /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat for writing: Permission denied at /usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 2748.
I have no means of testing the success or not, though I am happy to play around if you share a reprex.
I switched the package to both babel-icelandic and hyphen-icelandic, but still got an error message.
Reprex:
I open a fresh project with no base project. I create a new .Rmd file, which prompts me to update several packages to be able to compile an rmarkdown document.
I open the terminal and type the code given in the previous community post:
I then try to knit to pdf the following rmarkdown file:
---
title: ""
author: ""
date: ""
output:
pdf_document: default
header-includes:
- \usepackage[icelandic]{babel}
---
Í þessu verkefni munt þú vinna með gögn um Alþingismenn og ræður á Alþingi frá 1991 til 2018. Upprunalegu gögnin eru aðgengileg á vef Alþingis, en xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx hefur umbreytt og bætt við ýmsum viðbótarupplýsingum við gögnin.
The file above compiles, but with several warning messages, including:
Warning message:
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were preloaded for
(babel) the language `Icelandic' into the format.
(babel) Please, configure your TeX system to add them and
(babel) rebuild the format. Now I will use the patterns
(babel) preloaded for english instead on input line 54.
Obviously, the resulting pdf file includes incorrectly hyphenated words. "Upprunalega" should be hyphenated as such, upp-runa-lega.
I hope this gives you sufficient information to troubleshoot.
Apparently one of the limits of the usermode of tlmgr is the inability to update the language.
I just learned about tinytex today, and have been trying to get this to work. I don't get errors, but I also don't see hyphenation as you describe. Feel free to play with what I did and see if you can get further.
I will speak with the team about swapping the system texlive installation for one based on tinytex that allows users to more easily install what they need.
I opened the workspace and I notice that the PDF you generated has the correct hyphenation: Upp-runalega, rather than Up-prunalega (the word should either break upp-runalega or uppruna-lega).
However, when I knit your document, I do get an error:
tlmgr search --file --global '/icelandic.ldf'
cannot setup TLPDB in /home/rstudio-user/texmf at /usr/bin/tlmgr line 5604.
! Package babel Error: Unknown option `icelandic'. Either you misspelled it
(babel) or the language definition file icelandic.ldf was not fo
und.
Error: LaTeX failed to compile Testing1.tex. See The R package tinytex - Helper Functions to Manage TinyTeX, and Compile LaTeX Documents - Yihui Xie | 谢益辉 for debugging tips. See Testing1.log for more info.
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In system2("tlmgr", args, ...) :
running command ''tlmgr' search --file --global '/icelandic.ldf'' had status 2
2: In parse_packages(logfile, quiet = !verbose) :
Failed to find a package that contains icelandic.ldf
Execution halted
No worries for now - I'm happy to hear that you'll consider swapping to tinytex.
Í þessu verkefni munt þú vinna með gögn um Alþingismenn og ræður á Alþingi frá 1991 til 2018. Upprunalegu gögnin eru aðgengileg á vef Alþingis, en xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx hefur umbreytt og bætt við ýmsum viðbótarupplýsingum við gögnin.