Re: New Debian context package based on context release 061207

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Danai!
>
> On Son, 10 Dez 2006, Danai SAE-HAN wrote:
>   
>>> So here is -0.2, which does the following:
>>> - install doc files
>>> - do NOT install any map activation files in /etc/texmf/updmap.d
>>>       
>> So if I understand correctly, ConTeXt (which I haven't used yet)
>> doesn't use the .map files anymore with pdfTeX?  This might be
>> interesting for the CJK packages.  Or is the change only relevant for
>> ConTeXt-specific fonts?
>>     
>
> No, but the map files are installed into
> 	..../texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/context/...
> so that context/pdftex finds them. But there is no need for activation
> via updmap as *only* pdftex is used. Or at least this is how I
> understand it.
>
>   

the problem with a big map file is that it is potentially problematic 
(it definitely was in the past) because there is some fuzzy logic 
involved when embedded files are handled in pdftex;

so, in context, i don't preload all map files, but use \pdfmapfile{...} 
to explicitly load a map file so that we can be sure we have the right 
one -- keep in mind that we can have files on the system with similar 
internal names (the one between " in the map file) but different metric 
(slant, ext, cap,...) ; so, when you have a problem with a missing file 
(reported by pdftex), you can use \loadmapfile[somename.map] in context

Hans