On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:58:13 -0800
Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is the difference between the two for most of us users out here,
> and is there a reason to switch outside of a package's dependency (which
> I saw for one I was interested in, FWIW)? It doesn't sound like any
> from the above.
The reason I switched was (as I discussed here some time ago) that I kept
getting the documnent language name (I seem to be bilingual in "english" and
"american") prepended to the running header in AMS-* documents. It was
Jean-Marc, I think, who explained to me that this came from a version
mismatch between the babel and latex packages that were included in debian
etch. It had been this way for over a year, through various updates of the
OS. I could produce acceptable output by commenting out the babel package in
the tex file, but the problem was unaffected by simply unchecking the babel
option in LyX.
After the suggestion that I switch to texlive, the problem went away. Also,
texlive certainly was faster than tetex in compiling dvi files, possibly
because more of the fonts were pre-built (this is a guess. I am not certain
why it is faster, but it definitely is). Other than that there was no
noticable difference.
>
> David--what was the switch like under Debian? Do you recall any
> issues/problems? I thought about switching for that package, but was
> uncertain about what havoc I might create on my system... :-)
Well, for me it was simply a matter of removing the tetex package and
installing the texlive package. Everything worked perfectly after that. I
don't recall whether I had to remove/reinstall any other packages, but if I
did, it was nothing that caused any pain. I did not even have to reconfigure
LyX, as I recall, though maybe I did that as a precaution. This, by the way,
was with debian etch. I have since upgraded the distribution several times,
with no problem appearing.
--
David L. Johnson
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_`\(,_ | what canst thou say? -- George Fox.
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