Re: font mapfiles

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Sorry for reposting, but I'm really curious about this issue!
> 
> 
> I just had to reinstall my TeX installation (upgrade to OS X 10.4).  
> After mucking around with my old TeX, I decided to reinstall, and I  hit 
> a problem: even though I ran updmap, ConTeXt doesn't seem to work  with 
> the fonts I installed myself unless I include the \loadmapfile [foo] 
> either in the typescript or in the source file. This wasn't the  case 
> before. I also tried moving the mapfiles to texmf/fonts/map/ 
> pdftex/context insteadt of just fonts/map/, but that didn't change  
> anything. Am I missing something obvious, or is this the expected  
> behavior? I much prefer to have system-wide mapfiles since I use  LaTeX 
> from time to time and want the same fonts available there. They  work 
> with plain pdfetex as well, it's just ConTeXt that gives  trouble. So my 
> question is: is this the new setup, are we supposed to  load mapfiles 
> this way, and what is the advantage over the old method?

my guess is that you lost your local cont-sys.tex and that cont-sys.rme is used 
now; in there you will find

\resetmapfiles

so, in your case, you need a special version of cont-sys.tex (preferable in 
context/user so that it is not lost when you wipe out context/base)

btw, in some future release i will drop context map files and stick to inline 
map entries,

Hans


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