template settings in pdf converter not found when used as library.

[paultopia]

The documentation for pdf on the command line suggests it supports the same template options as latex, which include a basic template; the example for converting to html as a library in the documentation suggests that in order to select a template, one sets the template_file property of an exporter to a string.

So I would have expected the following code to work:

exporter = nbconvert.PDFExporter()
exporter.template_file = 'basic'
nb = nbformat.read("foo.ipynb", 4)
pdf, resources = exporter.from_notebook_node(nb)
with open("test.pdf", "wb") as tp:
    tp.write(pdf)

but it actually throws jinja2.exceptions.TemplateNotFound: basic

this is under nbconvert version 5.4.0, in case this is a known bug.

[paultopia]

Aaah, actually, this seems to be a documentation error---looking through the repo, there appears to be no basic latex template at all, so there probably shouldn't be one listed as an option in the docs.

[MSeal]

Would you mind making a PR to correct this doc issue?

[paultopia]

Sure, happy to do it.