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5 messages · Paul Gilbert, Brian Ripley

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On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Paul Gilbert wrote:

            
And what is that?  Please do note what the posting guide says about 
giving accurate version information.
It is part of the required version of LaTeX. From the NEWS file for 
2.11.0:

     o	UTF-8 is now used for the reference manual and package
 	manuals.  This requires LaTeX '2005/12/01' or later.

  
    
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R version 2.11.0 RC (2010-04-18 r51771)
I'm a bit confused about the version numbering scheme for latex.
latex --version reports 
TeX (Web2C 7.4.5) 3.14159
kpathsea version 3.4.5

Is that LaTeX '2005/12/01' or later?

Does it make sense that R is building ok, and apparently using utf8.def
according to the NEWS extract, but my packages don't find it?

Thanks,
Paul
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On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Paul Gilbert wrote:

            
LaTeX is not tex, and 'latex' is a link to 'tex' usually.

To get the LaTeX version, look further.  E.g  a LaTeX log might say

**refman.tex
(./refman.tex
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>

(which is the current one, according to the TeXLive 2009 updater).
Well, did you build the reference manual?  It is not part of the 
default build (e.g. 'make pdf' is needed).
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Thanks Brian. Yes, "make pdf" fails and my latex is too old
(2001/06/01).

Paul
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