On 19 October 2009 at 14:45, Douglas Bates wrote: | 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?
Ah yes, indeed -- that never become part of my workflow. If I use texi2pdf, I also see the bug on Debian testing. If you switch to pdflatex you may well be good on Ubuntu 9.10 as pdflatex is what works for me on Debian. Dirk -- 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