That implies you have not configured org-mode to include the tikz package. If you execute this block in a buffer does it work?
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (org-babel-do-load-languages 'org-babel-load-languages '((emacs-lisp . t) (python . t) (ditaa . t) (dot . t) (plantuml . t) (gnuplot . t) (sh . t) (org . t) (latex . t))) (setq org-latex-packages-alist (quote (("" "color" t) ("" "minted" t) ("" "parskip" t) ("" "tikz" t)))) (setq org-latex-create-formula-image-program 'imagemagick) #+END_SRC Peter Davis writes: > On Thu, Oct 6, 2016, at 01:59 PM, John Kitchin wrote: >> I tried this, and it worked for me. Check *Messages* for things like: >> Failed to create dvi file from >> /var/folders/5q/lllv2yf95hg_n6h6kjttbmdw0000gn/T/orgtex93386BIQ.tex >> >> if you see that try manually building the tex file to see if there are >> LaTeX issues. >> > > Thanks, John. Just running pdflatex from the command line gives me: > > ! Undefined control sequence. > l.36 \tikz > [remember picture]\node[coordinate,yshift=0.5em] (n1) {}; > > So perhaps TikZ itself is not available to some part of this. > > Thanks, > -pd -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu