[OT] LaTeX peculiarities in Ubuntu 9.10 beta
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik at wu.ac.at> wrote:
Dirk Eddelbuettel writes:
On 19 October 2009 at 13:41, Douglas Bates wrote: | I am running the beta test version of Ubuntu 9.10, x86_64 on a machine | and encountered some peculiarities in LaTeX called through | | R-devel CMD texi2pdf file.tex | | The tilde character in the input, which should produce a non-breaking | space, is now being rendered as a tilde. ?Does anyone know where I | could begin exploring for explanations and/or workarounds?
With Kurt and myself. ?:-)
Actually, I recently talked to Karl Berry about this, and he will modify upstream so that the tilde magic only gets performed for texinfo sources. ?(He did not apply the patch to upstream yet, though.)
So the temporary workaround is not to use texi2pdf but instead use pdflatex?
Best -k
We had a years-long buglet where R builds "broke" latexing for alpha/beta/rc releases such as the one I made this morning. Here, I use a scheme such as R-2.9.10~20091019 in both the package version and the build directory as dpkg sorts this lower than plain old R-2.9.10 and the final releases will cleanly replace the alpha/beta/rc variants. ?However, this then broke the texinfo-to-pdf conversion as texinfo et al choked over the ~ in the directory name. ?So all alpha/beta/rc build has essentially no pdf manuals.
I think the last thing I heard from Kurt on this a few months back was that the 'feature' you observed had appeared. I am a little fuzzy on the details but maybe Kurt can fill in.
But FWIW latex'ing this
? \documentclass[12pt]{article}
? \begin{document}
? Here are two~words separated by a tilde.
? \end{document}
does not show a tilde in the pdf that resulted on Debian testing, with the packages below. ?Maybe an Ubuntu bug report is needed? ?My two machines with 9.10 beta are currently unreachable for me.
Dirk
edd at ron:~> COLUMNS=74 dpkg -l | grep texlive ii ?texlive-base ? 2007.dfsg.2-4 ?TeX Live: Essential programs and files ii ?texlive-base-b 2007.dfsg.2-7 ?TeX Live: Essential binaries ii ?texlive-common 2007.dfsg.2-4 ?TeX Live: Base component ii ?texlive-doc-ba 2007.dfsg.2-2 ?TeX Live: Base documentation ii ?texlive-extra- 2007.dfsg.2-7 ?TeX Live: TeX auxiliary programs ii ?texlive-fonts- 2007.dfsg.2-4 ?TeX Live: Recommended fonts ii ?texlive-generi 2007.dfsg.17-2 TeX Live: Miscellaneous extra generic macros ii ?texlive-generi 2007.dfsg.2-4 ?TeX Live: Miscellaneous generic macros ii ?texlive-latex- 2007.dfsg.2-4 ?TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages ii ?texlive-latex- 2007.dfsg.17-2 TeX Live: LaTeX supplementary packages ii ?texlive-latex- 2007.dfsg.2-4 ?TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packages ii ?texlive-pictur 2007.dfsg.2-4 ?TeX Live: Packages for drawings graphics ii ?texlive-scienc 2007.dfsg.17-2 TeX Live: Typesetting for natural and comput edd at ron:~>
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