[OS X TeX] Updating Beamer

[Thomas Rike]

On Feb 13, 2006, at 1:17 PM, George Gratzer wrote:

> I see that Beamer is Version 3.06, while my installation (TeX Live  
> 2005) is version 3.01. So I should upgrade.
>
> The easiest would be to reinstall everything. This has the  
> advantage that everything else is also updated, including the  
> packages Beamer relies on.
>
> But how do I know that Beamer was updated by TUG (meaning, I  
> suppose, Gerben Wierde)?
>
> GG

Dear George,

Here is what Gerben said a few days ago about different versions in  
different packages.

    On 6 Feb 2006, at 18:34, Victor Ivrii wrote:

>  I suspect that without Gerben we will not be able to find an  
> explanation.

    Probably not. Here is what I can say about it:

My strategy:
- texmf.gwtex contains stuff that is not in texmf.tetex. This also  
means it contains dfifferent stuff when you install 2003 (teTeX2)  
versus 2004-2005 (teTeX3). It even used to be that you had the teTeX  
beamer (3.01)when you installed 2004-2005 and the gwtex beamer (3.06)  
when you installed 2003, so 2003 got you a *newer* beamer than  
2004-2005.

HTH, Tom Rike


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