Michael A. Peters wrote: >> as a TeX user I very puzzled using TeX/LaTeX under FC6: > teTeX is no longer being maintained. It is quite old now. > Updating it to a modern TeX system is recommended. > > They (Fedora) are looking into a way to package TeXLive for Fedora, but > until they have one, I would suggest using TeXLive. > > TeXLive 2005 is newer than teTeX as far as macros go, but TeXLive 2007 > will be released very soon (I believe they are targeting the 10th but > not positive). > > My installation notes for a test release are here: > http://mpeters.us/tplinux/thinkpad.html#texlive > > Since TeXLive is very self contained in how it installs, it will be > trivial to just remove it and replace it with whatever Fedora replaces > teTeX with when they do, if you choose to do so. While I don't disagree with this, I very much doubt if anything this dramatic is needed to solve the OP's problems. I use the teTeX that comes with Fedora-6 quite a lot, and it works perfectly well for me. I don't think it is nearly as easy as you suggest to replace teTeX by TeXLive. In my view, it would be unwise for the OP to follow your advice. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland