From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: taco@elvenkind.com, Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>,
debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: ConTeXt installtion and Debian
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:08:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <453E023E.6080700@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86hcxu3pop.fsf@alhambra.kuesterei.ch>
Frank � wrote:
>
>> Debian currently has:
>> TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/{fonts/,}map//;$TEXMF/dvips//
>>
>> What about this? I am not completely convinced about it since with
>> updmap we generate input file for all the different programs.
>>
one may assume that by now indeed most trees are tds compliant
(for context users there is textools --fixtexmftrees)
>
> The second part, $TEXMF/dvips//, is a Debian-specific
> backwards-compatibility hack to allow fonts to be found that install
> their map files according to the old (teTeX 2.0) TDS. We should drop it
> as soon as etch is out, and we should probably have done that even
> earlier. The first I don't quite understand, we actually have:
>
> % TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/{fonts/map,}/{$progname,pdftex,dvips,}//
> TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/{fonts/,}map//;$TEXMF/dvips//
>
> This looks like we dropped the program-specific paths (and with that
> their order), and like it wouldn't have been necessary to add a hack
> (but I know that at the time of the teTex-3.0-beta-release when I
> introduced it it *was* necessary).
>
the first (commented) one is indeed the one that is needed in order to
let dvipdfmx work nicely (even more important now that xetex uses
dvipdfmx as backend)
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-24 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-24 11:04 Norbert Preining
2006-10-24 11:13 ` Norbert Preining
2006-10-24 11:42 ` Frank Küster
2006-10-24 12:08 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2006-10-25 9:50 ` Hans Hagen
2006-10-24 16:51 ` Norbert Preining
2006-10-24 20:37 ` Ralf Stubner
2006-10-25 7:48 ` Hans Hagen
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