Re: [OS X TeX] Context texfont disaster with i-Installer 2.15.0

Re: [OS X TeX] Context texfont disaster with i-Installer 2.15.0

[Hans Hagen]

Hi Gerben,

strange. let's see if there is a mac user on the context list who knows why 
...

Hans

>On Monday, Mar 24, 2003, at 21:40 Europe/Amsterdam, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>>At 02:26 AM 3/20/2003 +0100, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>>>On Thursday, Mar 20, 2003, at 00:54 Europe/Amsterdam, Nigel King wrote:
>>>
>>>>Gerben,
>>>>It would be really nice to run the commands
>>>>texfont --encoding=texnansi --batch type-tmf.dat
>>>>texfont --encoding=8r --batch type-tmf.dat
>>>>texfont --encoding=ec --batch type-tmf.dat
>>>>As part of the installation if context is being enabled since this is 
>>>>rather
>>>>an important precursor to use.
>>
>>when done,
>>
>>   kpsewhich texnansi-uplr8a
>>
>>should report a path
>
>The commands above fail:
>
>>[dumbledore:~/tmp] root# texfont --encoding=texnansi --batch type-tmf.dat
>>
>>  TeXFont 1.6 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2002
>>
>>       trying to locate : type-tmf.dat
>>     processing aborted : unknown batch file
>>
>>                 --help : show some more info
>
>Any reason? The file is available:
>
>/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/context/data/type-tmf.dat
>
>G
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Re: Re: [OS X TeX] Context texfont disaster with i-Installer 2.15.0

[Maarten Sneep]

On Tuesday 01 April 2003 10:57, you wrote:
> Hi Gerben,
>
> strange. let's see if there is a mac user on the context list who knows why

> >/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/context/data/type-tmf.dat

OK, I'll try. This may be a stupid suggestion. I do not know how texfont 
searches for files. Let's assume it uses kpsewhich. 

I don't think that TEXMF/context is in any of the indexing path's, so it 
won't be found. What I do is either pass the full-path, or copy the file to a 
temporary directory. Not nice, but it works.

By the way, Hans: you should know how texfont usually locates the files ;-)

Maarten

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