[OS X TeX] Texlive-mac os

[Roussanka Loukanova]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Javier Elizondo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Looking at the home page of xcolor   http://www.ukern.de/tex/xcolor.html
> I found out a message the have
>
> Known issues
>
> \rowcolors[\hline]... does not work with `longtable'.
> So, there is no way so far to fixed the problem appearing in 
> beamerexample1.tex

But beamerexample1.tex doesn't have \rowcolors[\hline] or longtable.
Bruno's explanation is correct and his suggestion works: I tested it with 
both TeX distributions, gwTeX and TeXLive-07. See my email "Subject: 
\rowcolor xcolor in bemear: Re: [OS X TeX] Texlive-mac os".

The annoying thing is the fix that we need to do each time when we update 
gwTeX or TeXLive-07. But this would be fixed, for sure.

Roussanka

>
> See you... Javier
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>
> From: Bruno Voisin <bvoisin at mac.com>
>
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2007 2:10:46 AM
>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Texlive-mac os
>
>
>
> Le 7 mars 07 à 07:00, Javier Elizondo a écrit :
>
>
>
>> I was able to delete teTex, and install texlive (mac
>
>> tex 2007). But when I run beamerexample1.tex it goes
>
>> to problems in the last page. This is what it comes
>
>> out
>
>>
>
>> ......
>
>> <beamericonarticle.eps> [76] (./beamerexample1.toc)
>
>> [77] [78] [79]
>
>> ! Undefined control sequence.
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>> <recently read> \rowcolors
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>>
>
>> l.937 \end{frame}
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>>
>
>> ?
>
>>
>
>> I run this file in a linux computer and it was running
>
>> smoothly, in fact, I run this file with teTex and it
>
>> was OK. Does anyone knows if there are problems, bugs,
>
>>  with the new version of texlive besides this?.
>
>> Perhaps it is better to go back to teTex!. I do know
>
>> if I should install beamer directly in texlive again,
>
>> it comes with the package. This is the example than
>
>> comes with the instalation in order to try if the
>
>> package is installed in a correct way.
>
>
>
> This is because teTeX and TeXLive include different versions of the
>
> xcolor package, called implicitly by beamer and defining (not in all
>
> cases) the command \rowcolors:
>
>
>
> - teTeX includes version 2.00 of 4 July 2004, and \rowcolors is
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> always defined.
>
>
>
> - TeXLive-2007 includes version 2.11 of 21 January 2007, and
>
> \rowcolors is defined only when the option [table] is specified,
>
> apparently.
>
>
>
> Hence, in order for beamerexample1.tex to typeset with TeXLive-2007,
>
> you need to modify it to call the beamer package with option [table],
>
> so that this option is passed on to xcolor.
>
>
>
> I don't know whether there is a dedicated beamer mailing list (or a
>
> bug report system somewhere), given I'm no beamer user myself, but if
>
> there is then it could be appropriate to report the problem there.
>
>
>
> Generally, if you're in a rush and don't have time to devote to such
>
> compatibility problem (and have loads of disk space), you can install
>
> teTeX using i-Installer (ignoring the warning about it being
>
> deprecated). The TeX Distribution system pref panel which is
>
> installed by MacTeX allows very easy switching between several
>
> installed distributions. Using teTeX is not a viable strategy in the
>
> long term, but it may help when you're in a work crisis and have more
>
> pressing issues to deal with than TeX ones.
>
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>
>
> Bruno Voisin
>

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