font mapfiles

font mapfiles

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

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?

Thanks!

Thomas

Re: font mapfiles

[Hans Hagen]

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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Re: font mapfiles

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

Hans, Adam,

thanks for your replies! I just tried with Adam's version and my old  
version of cont-sys.tex, but it made no difference - do I have to  
rebuild the formats every time I change this file? I'll do more  
experiments this weekend, but will be away from my computer from  
tomorrow till Friday. Thanks for your help, I'll report back!

Best

Thomas

On May 17, 2005, at 8:03 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> 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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Re: font mapfiles

[Adam Lindsay]

Thomas A. Schmitz said this at Tue, 17 May 2005 23:42:47 +0200:

>I just tried with Adam's version and my old  
>version of cont-sys.tex, but it made no difference - do I have to  
>rebuild the formats every time I change this file?

Er, (something I still forget time to time), you definitely need to re-
hash the TeX trees after installing the new cont-sys.tex, though.

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Re: font mapfiles

[Hans Hagen]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Hans, Adam,
> 
> thanks for your replies! I just tried with Adam's version and my old  
> version of cont-sys.tex, but it made no difference - do I have to  
> rebuild the formats every time I change this file? I'll do more  
> experiments this weekend, but will be away from my computer from  
> tomorrow till Friday. Thanks for your help, I'll report back!

the file cont-sys.tex is read in at runtime, so there is no need to regenerate 
the format; when testing, watch the messages in the log with regards to map files

Hans



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font mapfiles

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

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?

Thanks!

Thomas