> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:53:39 +0530 > From: Shrisha Rao <sh...@nyx.net> > To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex@tug.org> > Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Hyphenating Tamil > Message-ID: <0530ce2c-d530-448d-b9c6-b4ae32b80...@nyx.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > El jun 26, 2010, a las 7:44 p.m., Khaled Hosny escribi?: > > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:15:02PM +0530, Shrisha Rao wrote: > > >> The best things to do would be to switch from Ubuntu to another distro > that has TeX Live 2009 (sorry, I cannot tell you which one), or else to not > install the TeX packages from the distro's manager but to install and > maintain TeX Live separately. > > > > As some one who have been using Ubuntu and texlive for several years now, > > I can safely say you are exaggerating too much here. One can easily > install > > texlive from tug on Ubuntu like any other Unix(-like) system, nothing > special > > here. Please refer to texlive documentation for installation > instructions. > > That was the second option I mentioned, to install TeX Live directly. I > don't think my comments about the difficulties of making do with Ubuntu's > own bundled circa-2007 TeX packages were too far off the mark. > > > And, IIRC, there is a PPA for texlive 2009. > > This I did not know, though it is perhaps a less satisfactory solution than > having a proper TeX Live available through the distro itself. > > Regards, > > Shrisha Rao > > > Khaled >
Thanks for all your replies and I think I can at last produce a DTP package in Tamil on Linux!! Ubuntu has recently decided not include GIMP raising many eyebrows... Ubuntu is a Linux for simple M$ addicts to make the transition to Linux smooth. For experts there are many ways in life I suppose... Suki
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