I am using Netrunner 13.12 (based on Ubuntu 13.10) and It has the latest version of texlive witch is 2013.
Regards, Fahad On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com>wrote: > 2014-02-27 15:15 GMT+01:00 dsv <ojdf...@gmail.com>: > > I uninstalled whatever tex I had obtained via the Synaptic Package > Manager > > and installed the latest version from the tug.org website. The problem > I had > > been facing disappeared! Thanks for the tips. > > > > I don't know who maintains texlive in the Ubuntu repository. I would be > > instructive to upgrade that to the latest version as many people I know > use > > a package manager (apt-get or Synaptic) to install software. If Ubuntu > says > > that I have the latest version of a certain software, I tend to believe > it. > > In this case, that was disproved. > > > With any Linux distro you never have the latest versions of anything. > They only differ in how old versions you have. It has several reasons. > Maintainers of distros verify stability and security, they do not > include untested versions. And the second reason is time. It always > needs some work to package it and thus time is needed. TeX is very > complex, packaging TeX Live is not an easy task. For most users old > version of TeX Live is good enough but the support of Indick scripts > and languages is quite new, thus for users of Indic scripts having the > latest version is important. Ubuntu certainly has bugzilla where you > can report issues. > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > >> > >> 2014-02-26 17:17 GMT+01:00 dsv <ojdf...@gmail.com>: > >> > Thanks Zdenek. I am using the same font in Ubuntu and Windows. It is > >> > called > >> > "Lohit Tamil". Both Ubuntu and Cygwin seem to be running the same > >> > version of > >> > xetex - 3.1415926. The sub-version seems a little different. However, > I > >> > don't know how to ensure that the same exact version of xelatex is > >> > running > >> > on both Cygwin and Ubuntu. I used the setup manager on Cygwin which > >> > offers > >> > only one version; on Ubuntu I used the Synaptic package manager. > >> > > >> 3.1415926 is version of TeX, not XeTeX. The TeX version converges to > >> \pi. Whenever D. E. Knuth fixes a bug, another digit is added. The > >> number after the hyphen denotes the version of the engine. You can > >> immediatelly see in the parenthesis, that in Cygwin you use the latest > >> official version from TeX Live 2013 while in Ubuntu you use a very old > >> version from TeX Live 2009. Harfbuzz was added in 2013 so it is > >> natural that it is not mentioned in that old version. You should first > >> upgrade your TeX in Ubuntu. If new deb packages are not available, it > >> is possible to install TeX Live directly from www.tug.org and you can > >> always keep it up-to-date no matter whether it is supplied in Ubuntu > >> or not. No one is going to fix bugs in 5 years old XeTeX. > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > > > > -- > Zdeněk Wagner > http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ > http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > -- my blog http://fahadalsaidi.blogspot.com
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