Re: current state of cm-super
On Jul 13 2003, C.M. Connelly wrote:
> I've been able to use pdflatex to create PDFs using the cm-super
> fonts (also in sarge). The secret is to include the line
>
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>
> in your preamble. If that still doesn't work for you, please let
> me know,
First of all, thank you Claire for replying.
Well, as my native language is Portuguese and I need loads and loads of
accents, I'm already using "\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}" in my standard
preamble.
The fonts that I get are still bitmapped.
> and maybe send me more details about the way that your
> system is set up (versions of the teTeX packages, output of
> ``kpsewhich -progname=pdflatex -format="dvips config" pdftex.map''
> and an ``ls -l'' of that file, etc.).
Ok, here are some needed information.
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rbrito@dumont:~$ kpsewhich -progname=pdflatex -format="dvips config" pdftex.map
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map
rbrito@dumont:~$ ls -l /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jun 19 21:09 /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config /pdftex.map -> pdftex_ndl14.map
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I'm attaching /etc/texmf/pdftex/pdftex.cfg to this e-mail (It's small).
I hope that it is useful for debugging. As a result of my pdftex.map
pointing to pdftex_ndl14.map, it file does not have any of the fonts in
the cm-super-t1.map file.
BTW, I have run update-updmap (just in case, even though I think the
package installation does that already) and my
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg file has the following:
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rbrito@dumont:~$ tail /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
MixedMap eurosym.map
### End of file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/00updmap.cfg
### From file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10cm-super.cfg
MixedMap cm-super-t1.map
MixedMap cm-super-t2a.map
MixedMap cm-super-t2b.map
MixedMap cm-super-t2c.map
MixedMap cm-super-ts1.map
MixedMap cm-super-x2.map
### End of file: /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10cm-super.cfg
rbrito@dumont:~$
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As you can see from my comments, I am a TeX illiterate.
[Suggestion of having cm-super, cm-super-debfiles and cm-super-fonts]
> This idea sounds good, and I'll think about it. The problem is that
> all the material comes from the same source tarball, which means that
> updating one aspect would result in rebuilding all the packages, even
> though they wouldn't really be changing. It might be necessary to
> create a separate source package for each major component.
Hummm, I see. What about creating just two debian (source) packages, one
containing the fonts and nothing else and another that has the debian
files, then? Perhaps making the package with debian files having a
versioned dependency on the package with the fonts? Would it be a good
compromise?
> RB> This way, if one changes just how the fonts plug into
> RB> tetex, a small download would be sufficient (I suppose
> RB> that the fonts themselves would be somewhat stable).
>
> Hopefully we won't need to change that very often, either, as I
> think that teTeX's method of handling the configuration files has
> stabilized, and that the configuration files for cm-super are
> pretty much where they need to be for use with TeX.
That's nice to know.
> (Getting them to work with other applications is a whole other can of
> worms.)
I think that the strategy I described would facilitate the
infra-structure for more flexibility in updating the packages, even to
get the fonts to work with other applications (but, sincerely, I'm only
concerned with getting them to work well with TeX at first).
> Thanks for your feedback, I hope that this message helps you get
> things working.
Thank you for your work and for your e-mail, Rogério Brito.
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