[OS X TeX] TeX based on TeX Live release

[Paul Vickers]

I've noticed that the gtamachoefler package has changed. Whereas I used 
to write '\usepackage[os]{gtamachoefler}' to get old-style lining 
numbers, one must now put '\usepackage[osf]{gtamachoefler}'

Paul

Gerben Wierda wrote:
> The TeX (based on TeX Live) i-Package has been released to all the 
> repositories and so have all the support i-Packages: MusixTeX, CM-Super, 
> CB-Greek and the ConTeXt Updater.
> 
> (The LaTeX Updater will be removed later. For a recent LaTeX, the TeX 
> Live i-Package is the best choice.)
> 
> The old and new TeX i-Package can both be installed on a system. They do 
> not interfere.
> 
> There are two special points of attention when migrating from old to new 
> or when keeping them both available for the time being:
> - Your personal files in ~/Library/texmf are available for both. 
> Especially configuration files like updmap.cfg (font maps) and 
> language.dat (hyphenation patterns) are not compatible with both 
> systems, mainly because file names differ between the two distributions
> - If you use TeX from the command line, you get either old or new, 
> depending on what is in the system-wide shell startup settings. The 
> values there are set by the configuration phase of either i-Package and 
> the last configuration run defines what is being set there.
> 
> One other important note: XeTeX is currently only supported on intel.
> 
> Default install locations are /usr/local/teTeX (old) and 
> /usr/local/TeXLive (new)
> 
> The TeX Support i-Packages (except for the LaTeX Updater) can handle 
> both distributions.
> 
> G
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