Re: problem with texmf-local on Vista

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Christopher G D Tipper wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a user of Context from the old days, and usually don't need much 
> help installing the software. However, I am needing to use 
> Contextminimals for the first time, as Miktex 2.8 has dropped Context 
> support.
> 
> My problem is that I have a lot of my own setups and personal fonts and 
> Contextminimals seems to have some problem dealing with local setups. I 
> am using MkII by the way but these problems seem to exist in MkIV also.
> 
> I have a font, Univers, installed to texmf-local with texfont and 
> Context claims it cannot find the font definitions.
> 
> running texexec I get the following:
> 
> !pdfTeX error: pdftex.exe (file 8r-raw-punr8a): Font 8r-raw-punr8a at 
> 432 not found
>  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
> TeXExec | runtime: 10.311
> 
> ConTeXt Full finished at Sun Nov 29 21:58:36
> 
> Then from command prompt, I type:
> C:\Users\Christopher>kpsewhich 8r-raw-punr8a.tfm
> c:/context/texmf-local/fonts/tfm/adobe/univers/8r-raw-punr8a.tfm
> 
> I know this is not strictly relevant to MkII, but for comparison:
> C:\Users\Christopher>luatools --expand-path TEXMFLOCAL
> c:/context/texmf-local
> 
> Also
> C:\Users\Christopher>texexec --version
> TeXExec | version 6.2.1 - 1997-2009 - PRAGMA ADE/POD
> 
> C:\Users\Christopher>context --version
> MTXrun | main context file: 
> c:/context/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.te
> x
> MTXrun | current version: 2009.10.27 16:35
> 
> How do I get Context to recognise the local setup?

can you check the TEXMF variable?

there should be texmf-local as well as texmf-fonts and texmf-project

(i normally put fonts in texmf-fonts)

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