[XeTeX] Biblatex and Biber UTF-8 file

[Karljurgen Feuerherm]

No worries, Herb, I took it as recommendation in any case :)

K

>>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:11 PM, in message
<AD480961-1D22-4B77-B14A-513C8EA30C40 at wideopenwest.com>, Herbert Schulz
<herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote: 

> On Nov 12, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
>> 
>>> There's an issue here, Phil, about where and how Karljurgen got his
>>> distribution.  If he got it through the Ubuntu aptitude system, or
>>> similar, then he'll have got the original first release of TL2010,
>>> without any of the updates that have been issued since its first
>>> release.  The Ubuntu built-in distro of TL doesn't get regular,
>>> automatic updates.  Basically, if you get your TL through the
>>> debian/aptitude pipeline, then you have one version of everything for a
>>> year, until TL2011 comes out.
>>> 
>>> Using tlmgr means unintalling the whole TeXlive system from Ubuntu -
>>> using the aptitude interface.  Then you have to reinstall everything
>>> again over the net (here
>>> <http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html>).  It's not hard,
>>> but it's a bit daunting for beginners.
>> 
>> Hmm, maybe the TeX Live team need to be more pro-active in
>> determining what can, and what cannot, be called "TeX Live".
>> A user who gets TeX Live as a part of his O/S distribution
>> should surely be entitled to believe that what he has is
>> TeX Live, not some packager's variant thereof.
>> 
>> ** Phil.
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> I'd guess it IS TeX Live and not a variant. The problem is that TeX Live 
> 2010 was frozen well before distribution and packages have been updated since 
> that time. Some of them bug fixes and needing necessary dependency updates 
> too. Sorry for the tlmgr comment but I was thinking of a straight TeX Live 
> distribution.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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