Bug#65837: installing local .mf files

[Dan Christensen <jdc@jhu.edu>]

Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.6-7
Severity: wishlist


It would be great if the default configuration of tetex allowed you to
just plop some .mf files into a directory in /usr/local and then have
the pk files created as needed and added to the system font directories.  
Could the set-up be altered to make this possible?  (Or is it already?)

[I don't want to add them to the /usr/share/texmf tree as I want to
keep all local additions separate.]

Also, is it intentional that when a user puts .mf files somewhere
in his home directory, and alters MFINPUTS accordingly, the pk files
that get created when xdvi is run are left in the same directory as
the dvi file, instead of being added to the system directories?

Dan


-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux scratchy 2.2.13 #1 Sun Mar 5 13:09:42 EST 2000 i686

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  debianutils                  1.13.3      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg-perl                    0.1-3.1     Perl interface modules for dpkg   
ii  ed                           0.2-18      The classic unix line editor      
ii  libc6                        2.1.3-10    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpng2                      1.0.5-1     PNG library - runtime             
ii  libstdc++2.10                1:2.95.2-12 The GNU stdc++ library            
ii  tetex-base                   1.0-10      basic teTeX library files         
ii  tetex-lib                    1.0.6-7     shared libkpathsea for teTeX      
ii  xlib6g                       3.3.6-7     shared libraries required by X cli
ii  zlib1g [libz1]               1:1.1.3-5   compression library - runtime     

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf changed [not included]