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Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:53:39 +0530<br>
From: Shrisha Rao <<a href="mailto:shrao@nyx.net">shrao@nyx.net</a>><br>
To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <<a href="mailto:xetex@tug.org">xetex@tug.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Hyphenating Tamil<br>
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El jun 26, 2010, a las 7:44 p.m., Khaled Hosny escribi?:<br>
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> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:15:02PM +0530, Shrisha Rao wrote:<br>
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>> 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.<br>
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> As some one who have been using Ubuntu and texlive for several years now,<br>
> I can safely say you are exaggerating too much here. One can easily install<br>
> texlive from tug on Ubuntu like any other Unix(-like) system, nothing special<br>
> here. Please refer to texlive documentation for installation instructions.<br>
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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.<br>
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> And, IIRC, there is a PPA for texlive 2009.<br>
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This I did not know, though it is perhaps a less satisfactory solution than having a proper TeX Live available through the distro itself.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Shrisha Rao<br>
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> Khaled<br></blockquote><div><br><br>Thanks for all your replies and I think I can at last produce a DTP package in Tamil on Linux!!<br>Ubuntu has recently decided not include GIMP raising many eyebrows...<br>Ubuntu is a Linux for simple M$ addicts to make the transition to Linux smooth.<br>
For experts there are many ways in life I suppose...<br><br>Suki<br></div></div>