[R-sig-Debian] [OT] LaTeX peculiarities in Ubuntu 9.10 beta

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Mon Oct 19 21:59:33 CEST 2009


On 19 October 2009 at 14:45, Douglas Bates wrote:
| On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik at 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

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