Re: TEXMFMAIN problem in gwTeX (font installation)

[Ville Voipio <ville.voipio@kpatents.com>]

> generated fonts metrics are put in a given path:

And this is not the problem.

I have to apologise for the bad wording of my previous message. I am not 
saying there would be anything wrong with the Perl script. The only 
slight annoyance there is the error message, which states:

   "unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/$vendor/$collection"

At least to my eye this seems to refer to the parent directory (..), 
whereas it really doesn't. It just says that 
something/something/fonts/afm/$vendor/$collection is missing. Full path 
in that message would've gotten me to the goal a bit faster.

The problem is really in the font installation script (type-tmf.dat). 
There the root (i.e. the source tree for the fonts) is explicitly given 
as TEXMFMAIN. And this does not work in gwTeX, because if something is 
given, it has to be TEXMFTE.

As a summary:

- texfont.pl is fine
- gwTeX is fine
- type-tmf.dat is not fine, but I really don't know how to reliably fix 
it (yes, patching is simple, but then it does not work in other distros)

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But am I doing something stupid (again)?

I think I have some kind of understanding of the ConTeXt font 
mechanisms. However, I am still a bit confused about this mess. So, what 
is the easy, standard, newbie way to install the TeX Live font 
collection to be used with ConTeXt? Is it still using the type-tmf.dat 
batch file?

- Ville