On 05/30/2010 06:29 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sun, 30 May 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Genes MailLists wrote:
>
>> I see that F13 still has texlive 2007 which is too old for me to use
>> and collaborate with my colleagues.
>
> As a matter of interest, what do you need that is not in TeXlive 2007?
My guess is that there was a change in syntax,
not necessarilly a change in function.
Another possibility is that his colleagues use
software that does an explicit version test.
Yet another possibility is that his colleagues are doing
explicit version tests and he is tired of hearing about it.
The biggest change is the inclusion of biblatex in base release of
texlive 2009 - the older stuff like natbib - worked differently in
different versions - and was troublesome if you needed to make any
changes at all. (biblatex is really nice too ;-)
There are also font improvements (which are used for internal
publications).
Typical prob was send a doc to collaborator and they get errors when
compiling it using newer texlive when it worked fine for me in the older
one - i got tired of fighting ... so I installed the same one everyone
else has been using for some time. And vice versa - coz of missing stuff
like biblatex.
tlmgr is also very easy to use to keep it updated.
I was rather hoping that something newer would be included in f13
but it is now slated for f14.
I dont have a deep desire to hand install things - but texlive is
dead simple - download the iso which has everything on it - install.
run tlmgr once in a while to get updates. I rather like the simplicity
of getting the whole thing in one shot.
Thanks .. I'll keep using tlmgr ... for now.