pdflatex rendering error, but only when rendering from Quarto #13723
Description
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- searched the issue tracker for similar issues
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Bug description
I have a Quarto document (unfortunately, I cannot share publicly, and don't have the time now to generate a reprex).
When I enable longtable for gt() and render (with pdf-engine: pdflatex), I get the following error:
ERROR:
compilation failed- missing packages (automatic installed disabled)
Infinite glue shrinkage found in box being split.
<argument> Infinite shrink error above ignored !
l.702 \end{longtable}
The box you are \vsplitting contains some infinitely
shrinkable glue, e.g., `\vss' or `\vskip 0pt minus 1fil'.
Such glue doesn't belong there; but you can safely proceed,
since the offensive shrinkability has been made finite.However, when I run pdflatex from the command line on the generated .tex from Quarto, the document renders without error
Steps to reproduce
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Actual behavior
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Expected behavior
I would expect rendering the generated tex from the command line or via Quarto to produce the same output.
I haven't run into this mismatch before—is this known to happen? Is there something about longtable which triggers this?
I appreciate that no real investigation is possible without a reprex, but thought I'd flag this in case someone has seen it before.
Your environment
- Positron
- MacOS Sequoia
Quarto check output
Quarto 1.8.25
[✓] Checking environment information...
Quarto cache location: /Users/cmccartan/Library/Caches/quarto
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
Pandoc version 3.6.3: OK
Dart Sass version 1.87.0: OK
Deno version 2.3.1: OK
NOTE: Typst version 0.14.0 does not strictly match 0.13.0 and strict checking is enabled. Please use 0.13.0.
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
Version: 1.8.25
Path: /Applications/quarto/bin
[✓] Checking tools....................OK
TinyTeX: (external install)
Chromium: (not installed)
[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
Using: TinyTex
Path: /Users/cmccartan/Library/TinyTeX/bin/universal-darwin
Version: 2025
[✓] Checking Chrome Headless....................OK
Using: Chrome found on system
Path: /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
Source: MacOS known location
[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK
[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
Version: 3.9.6
Path: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/python3
Jupyter: (None)
Jupyter is not available in this Python installation.
Install with python3 -m pip install jupyter
[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
Version: 4.5.0
Path: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources
LibPaths:
- /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.5-arm64/Resources/library
knitr: 1.50
rmarkdown: 2.29
[✓] Checking Knitr engine render......OK