On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Kurt Hornik <kurt.hor...@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 > >> e...@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 >> e...@ron:~> > >> -- >> Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian