On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Takashi ichihara wrote:
Dear colleagues,
Recently APS Journals requires RevTex 4.1 as well as the latest version
of the natbib package, version 8.31a which was released in November 2009.
https://authors.aps.org/revtex4/
However, in the default TeX installation of SL6.1 (and SL5.7), only the
RevTex4 and old versions of natbib are installed.
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Does anyone know how to install RevTex 4.1 as well as the latest version
of the natbib package, version 8.31a which was released in November 2009
on SL5 and SL6 as system wide ?
Thank you in advance.
For complex reasons we need to maintain availability of the default and
older revtex (including the revtex 3.1!), so for revtex 4.1 we added a
directory in texmf.local (but outside the usual search places) containing
updated versions of:
revtex, natbib, url
those being the latest versions taken striaght from CTAN - latest at the
time we were asked for it. Then for users to use it they need to set
TEXINPUTS to include that directory before :: (meaning 'the usual path' of
course), e.g. in our case (for historical reasons) we keep tex in
/opt/tetex/ so the path to add is: /opt/tetex/share/texmf.local/revtex-4.1
and users can set something like:
export TEXINPUTS=/opt/tetex/share/texmf.local/revtex-4.1::
and similarly for BIBINPUTS/BSTINPUTS for bibtex etc.
It is a bit of pain for users, but I really don't like messing with the
existing default installed revtex as I have too many nightmares about
breaking existing documents doing something similar many years ago.
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