Comments on: Karmic Koala

By: Simon Jackman

Simon Jackman — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:10:10 +0000

texlive 2009 is available if you poke around the mirrors enough, sounds like you got it.

thanks for the tip re xelatex and extras. Such fun…so easy compared to NFSS horror I learned years ago (um, a decade ago).

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:40:30 +0000

I think I toyed with it a couple of times, but I never had a document that was complex enough to justify Sweave but computationally simple enough so that the whole process was brief/painless.

I thought that I would have more time to do these things properly now (literate programming, version control, the whole shebang), but after having wasted half the day with TeXLive installation (and still being unable to use unicode-math + xelatex), I doubt it…

By: malecki

malecki — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:34:43 +0000

ugh. yeah. holding off on that one. I spent 6 hours manually extricating myself from dependency hell in an incremental feisty-to-jaunty upgrade. along the way, managed to pick up a atheros wifi kernel bug that panics/freezes completely at random (and persists in karmic). tangentially — do you use Sweave?