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Takashi ichihara <[log in to unmask]>
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Takashi ichihara <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 1 Nov 2011 14:25:20 +0900
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Just correction of my typo.

On 2011.11.1 at 2:05 PM (JST), Takashi Ichihara wote,
> Hi all,
>
> I found the solutions by myself to install REVTeX 4.1 on SL5/6.
> Only installing two rpm packages resolved this.
>
> http://pkgs.org/centos-5-rhel-5/puias-unsupported-i386/tetex-natbib-8.31a-1.PU_IAS.1.noarch.rpm.html
>
> http://pkgs.org/centos-5-rhel-5/puias-unsupported-i386/tetex-natbib-8.31a-1.PU_IAS.1.noarch.rpm.html
>
>
http://pkgs.org/centos-5-rhel-5/puias-unsupported-i386/tetex-natbib-8.31a-1.PU_IAS.1.noarch.rpm.html
http://pkgs.org/centos-5-rhel-5/puias-unsupported-i386/tetex-revtex-4.1-1.PU_IAS.1.noarch.rpm.html

> $ ls -l tete*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 396538 Nov 1 12:59
> tetex-natbib-8.31a-1.PU_IAS.1.noarch.rpm
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3896602 Nov 1 12:56
> tetex-revtex-4.1-1.PU_IAS.1.noarch.rpm
> $
>
> All these modules will be expanded at the the directory tree
> starting at /usr/local/share/texmf while original tex distributions
> of SL are expanded at the directory tree of /usr/share/texmf .
>
> So in principle, there is no interference between the original
> tex packages and this updates.
>
> So far, these two rpm packages seem to be working well
> on our SL6.1 (X86_64) and SL5.6-5.7(X86_64) for APS.

https://authors.aps.org/revtex4/

>
> However, since these are unsupported software packages,
> please use these at your own risk.
>
> Regrades,
> Takashi Ichihara
>
> On 2011.11.1 at 1:31 PM (JST), Jon Peatfiel wrote,
>> 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.
>> <snip>
>>> 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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