From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20169 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ville Voipio Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: TEXMFMAIN problem in gwTeX (font installation) Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 14:01:50 +0300 Message-ID: <4276089E.80905@kpatents.com> References: <427230A6.6080500@kpatents.com> <797c87f1126c1c8a1cab222b37735652@rna.nl> <4275D9B4.6040000@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115031368 9162 80.91.229.2 (2 May 2005 10:56:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 10:56:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon May 02 12:56:06 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DSYaa-0005ra-47 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 May 2005 12:55:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A702127E9; Mon, 2 May 2005 13:01:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07001-02; Mon, 2 May 2005 13:01:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A62A127BA; Mon, 2 May 2005 13:01:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86762127BA for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 13:01:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06427-08 for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 13:01:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.kpatents.com (mail.kpatents.com [195.170.128.67]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FD2A12780 for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 13:01:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 20294 invoked from network); 2 May 2005 11:01:50 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.100.157?) (192.168.100.157) by mail.kpatents.com with SMTP; 2 May 2005 11:01:50 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <4275D9B4.6040000@wxs.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20169 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20169 > 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) --- 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