<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 4:14 AM, Gerald Pechoc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ubuntu@pechoc.eu" target="_blank">ubuntu@pechoc.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I want to be compatible with my office computer, where 2013 on a MAC is installed.<br>
I am not a beginner in Latex, but I am not a very educated Unix Admin.<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
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Gerald</font></span><br></blockquote><div class="h5"><br></div><div class="h5">You will find that a small effort to learn basic POSIX concepts (OS X and linux <br>draw on POSIX standards) will pay off in the long run with OS X as well as linux, <br>
if only because the shell makes it easier to provide details of problems in a <br>form than can be pasted into email. For linux, you can easily have both the <br></div><div class="h5">Ubuntu TL packages and a current CTAN TL, and switch back and forth as<br>
</div><div class="h5">needed. <br></div><div class="h5"><br>Your original problem most likely has a simple fix, but without some understanding<br></div><div class="h5">of the required concepts it is difficult for you to provide enough detail in your posts to and <br>
also difficult for you to understand or carry out the suggestions of those trying to help.<br></div><div class="h5"><br></div><div class="h5">As others have mentioned, even using the same version of TL on different platforms<br>
</div><div class="h5">there can still be differences in fonts and other software used by TL. Whether an<br></div><div class="h5">older TL will work for you depends on the nature of your workload and whether you<br></div>
<div class="h5">require documents compiled on linux to give identical output to those compiled on <br>OS X. If you already have a working TL installation on linux your best strategy may<br>to to conduct test with some existing documents to see if if meets your needs.<br>
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On 2013-11-17 00:46, Norbert Preining wrote:<br>
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the sad thing is that ubuntu's current lts release offers tl 2009, only.<br>
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Umpf, ok, that is bad.<br>
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But the OP problem I still believe that *this* is not a problem.<br>
He seems to be a complete beginner. For those people 2009 vs 2013<br>
does not change much.<br>
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Norbert<br>
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