[XeTeX] Hyphenating Tamil

[R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar]

On Saturday 26 June 2010 07:15 PM, Shrisha Rao wrote:

> Ubuntu has been well-known to include an out-of-date TeX Live (I
> think 2007!) with many long-resolved issues.  It is also problematic
> to install TeX Live or some parts of it separately if one has already
> installed the TeX packages made available by the distro, as all sorts
> of things break (or will suddenly break when there is some package
> update).  The tlmgr utility also conflicts with the distro's own
> package update feature so is typically unavailable.

On K/Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) I can trivially install via gui or 
command line texlive packages currently bearing version number 
2009-7ubuntu3.

FWIW, maintaining two separate TeXLive distributions, one from the 
K/Ubuntu packages and another from the CTAN TeXLive repository is likely 
to be problem prone. After installing the K/Ubuntu packages, one simply 
updates and upgrades them with apt-get rather than running tlmgr.

Your comments above do not come within the ambit of my experience.

--
Chandra