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From: Jean Magnan de Bornier <jm.bornier@free.fr>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Minimals and dvipng
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:10:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k58o4mbh.fsf@bornier.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090120201657.GQ22175@phare.normalesup.org> (Arthur Reutenauer's message of "Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:16:57 +0100")

Le 20 janvier à 21:16:57 Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org> écrit notamment:

| > Thanks a lot, it works. Will there be any side-effect on normal uses of context?
>
|   Definitely.  TEXFONTMAPS is the path to the various font mapping files
| for dvips, (x)dvipdfm(x) and pdfTeX.  I would strongly advise against
| setting that variable for normal use of the minimals.  What you could do
| without tweaking with TEXFONTMAPS, is to put ps2pk.map in some directory
| inside fonts/map in the minimals, together with the dvipng binary.  Best
| in texmf-local, for this is the location for local changes.  But then,
| you of course need to make sure that the necessary fonts are available
| in the minimals, etc.
>
|   Since you have TeX Live installed, your best bet is probably to use
| the minimals with the special TEXFONTMAPS setting only for ConTeXt +
| dvipng, and otherwise use the minimals only, or TeX Live only.
>

Well that doesn't look too good... I wish I could use dvipng whenever I
need to. 
A solution is of course to give up minimals and install the TeXlive
ConTeXt; do you think it is a bad move? (for use of mkiv)?
-- 
Jean
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-21 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-20  8:12 Jean Magnan de Bornier
2009-01-20  8:25 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2009-01-20  9:24   ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
2009-01-20 12:31     ` Arthur Reutenauer
2009-01-20 12:49       ` Arthur Reutenauer
2009-01-20 20:01         ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
2009-01-20 20:16           ` Arthur Reutenauer
2009-01-21 17:10             ` Jean Magnan de Bornier [this message]
2009-01-21 17:24               ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-01-21 22:32               ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-01-22 17:31                 ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
2009-01-29 10:54                 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-01-29 20:05                   ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
2009-01-30 19:52 ` Jean Magnan de Bornier

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