Problem with the chapter number style in {oxforddown}

[bttomio]

Hi,

When knitting the template {oxforddown} with tinytex_0.31.6, there is a bug the chapter number style.

This is the obtained style with my current session:

This is the expected result, showing a different style for the chapter number:

The expected result is obtained using TeX Live. I'm trying to debug it further (no clue so far, sorry). Thanks!

Session information:

R version 4.0.5 (2021-03-31)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, RStudio 1.4.1103

Locale:
  LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C               LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
  LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8    LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
  LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C             LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

Package version:
  base64enc_0.1.3   bookdown_0.22     compiler_4.0.5    digest_0.6.27     evaluate_0.14     glue_1.4.2       
  graphics_4.0.5    grDevices_4.0.5   highr_0.9         htmltools_0.5.1.1 jsonlite_1.7.2    knitr_1.32.9     
  magrittr_2.0.1    markdown_1.1      methods_4.0.5     mime_0.10         rlang_0.4.10      rmarkdown_2.7    
  stats_4.0.5       stringi_1.5.3     stringr_1.4.0     tinytex_0.31.6    tools_4.0.5       utils_4.0.5      
  xfun_0.22         yaml_2.2.1    

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[yihui]

I don't have time to figure out which package(s) caused the difference, but you may try to install these additional packages: tinytex:::install_yihui_pkgs()

[yihui]

At the moment I can only tell that below are the required packages that at least make the LaTeX compilation succeed after tinytex::install_tinytex():

pkgs1 = c("amsfonts", "amsmath", "appendix", "atbegshi", "atveryend", 
"auxhook", "babel", "babel-english", "babel-greek", "babel-latin", 
"biber", "biblatex", "bibtex", "bigintcalc", "bitset", "booktabs", 
"caption", "cbfonts-fd", "cm", "colortbl", "csquotes", "dehyph", 
"dvipdfmx", "dvips", "ec", "enumitem", "environ", "epstopdf-pkg", 
"eso-pic", "etex", "etexcmds", "etoolbox", "euenc", "everyshi", 
"fancyhdr", "fancyvrb", "filehook", "firstaid", "float", "fontspec", 
"framed", "geometry", "gettitlestring", "glyphlist", "graphics", 
"graphics-cfg", "graphics-def", "greek-fontenc", "grfext", "grffile", 
"helvetic", "hycolor", "hyperref", "hyph-utf8", "hyphen-base", 
"hyphen-greek", "hyphen-latin", "iftex", "inconsolata", "infwarerr", 
"intcalc", "knuth-lib", "kpathsea", "kvdefinekeys", "kvoptions", 
"kvsetkeys", "l3backend", "l3kernel", "l3packages", "latex", 
"latex-amsmath-dev", "latex-bin", "latex-fonts", "latex-tools-dev", 
"latexconfig", "latexmk", "letltxmacro", "lineno", "lm", "lm-math", 
"logreq", "ltxcmds", "lua-alt-getopt", "luahbtex", "lualatex-math", 
"lualibs", "luaotfload", "luatex", "makecell", "mdwtools", "metafont", 
"mfware", "microtype", "minitoc", "modes", "multirow", "natbib", 
"notoccite", "oberdiek", "pdfescape", "pdflscape", "pdfpages", 
"pdftex", "pdftexcmds", "plain", "quotchap", "refcount", "rerunfilecheck", 
"scheme-infraonly", "soul", "stringenc", "tabu", "tex", "tex-ini-files", 
"texlive-scripts", "texlive.infra", "threeparttable", "threeparttablex", 
"times", "tipa", "titlesec", "tocbibind", "tools", "trimspaces", 
"ulem", "unicode-data", "unicode-math", "uniquecounter", "units", 
"url", "varwidth", "wrapfig", "xcolor", "xetex", "xetexconfig", 
"xkeyval", "xunicode", "zapfding")

tinytex::tlmgr_install(pkgs1)

And these are the additional packages that can render the chapter numbers in the expected style:

pkgs2 = c("a4wide", "achemso", "adjustbox", "ae", "algorithmicx", "algorithms", 
"ametsoc", "amscls", "apacite", "babel-french", "bbm-macros", 
"beamer", "bookmark", "breakurl", "carlisle", "catoptions", "ccicons", 
"changepage", "charter", "chemgreek", "cite", "cleveref", "collectbox", 
"comment", "courier", "crop", "datetime", "dblfloatfix", "doclicense", 
"draftwatermark", "eepic", "endfloat", "endnotes", "epsf", "epstopdf", 
"esvect", "etex-pkg", "eurosym", "everysel", "expex", "extsizes", 
"floatflt", "floatrow", "fmtcount", "fontaxes", "footmisc", "forarray", 
"fp", "fpl", "hardwrap", "hyperxmp", "hyphen-french", "hyphenat", 
"ifmtarg", "jknapltx", "kastrup", "koma-script", "langsci", "lastpage", 
"lettrine", "lipsum", "listings", "ltxkeys", "ly1", "makecmds", 
"marginnote", "marvosym", "mathalpha", "mathpazo", "mathspec", 
"mathtools", "mdframed", "memoir", "metalogo", "mhchem", "minifp", 
"mnras", "morefloats", "moreverb", "ms", "mweights", "ncntrsbk", 
"needspace", "newfloat", "newtx", "ntgclass", "palatino", "paralist", 
"parskip", "pbox", "pdfsync", "pgf", "picinpar", "placeins", 
"polyglossia", "preprint", "preview", "psfrag", "psnfss", "ragged2e", 
"realscripts", "revtex4-1", "roboto", "rsfs", "sauerj", "sectsty", 
"seqsplit", "setspace", "sidecap", "siunitx", "soulutf8", "srcltx", 
"standalone", "stix", "stmaryrd", "sttools", "subfig", "subfigure", 
"symbol", "tabto-ltx", "tcolorbox", "tex-gyre", "textcase", "thmtools", 
"thumbpdf", "totcount", "totpages", "translator", "tufte-latex", 
"ucs", "upquote", "urlbst", "utopia", "vmargin", "vruler", "wallpaper", 
"xargs", "xifthen", "xltxtra", "xstring", "xwatermark", "xypic", 
"zapfchan", "zref")

tinytex::tlmgr_install(pkgs2)

But I don't know which packages in pkgs2 are needed to generate the expected style. You or someone will need to bisect them to figure it out (e.g., first tlmgr_remove() half of them, re-render the book, check the style, and remove the other half or half from the first half, and so on...).

[bttomio]

Thank you very much for your help, @yihui. It's a very constructive answer, which helped me to learn a debugging technique. I wish I knew how to map the packages like that.

By bisecting the second package list (pkgs2), the specific package that generates the expected style is psnfss. This is intriguing for me, being aware of your solution for the problem related to the NFSS system in the oxforddown template. Are they related somehow? Previously, the document knitted perfectly after the manual installation of the package cbfonts-fd, as mentioned here.

[yihui]

Great work! I really appreciate it.

After looking at the LaTeX log for a while, I didn't find a clue that would tell me to automatically install psnfss. There is no error, and the warning messages are obscure to me.

An easy way to solve this problem is to bundle psnfss in the default TinyTeX distribution, since it seems to be one of the "required" packages: https://ctan.org/pkg/required The size of psnfss is about 440Kb. Not too big. Not too small. Perhaps I should just do it.