Re: Are all map files configuration files?
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:
> On 26.03.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> [map-files]
>>
>> The ones in the fontname directory are clearly just informational.
>> But the other ones might be regarded as configuration files - while
>> it is uncommon to edit the ones that come with a particular font
>> family, it might be necessary under certain circumstances.
>>
>> And it is all but clear to me why these 9 examples are not counted as a
>> configuration file currently:
>>
>> $ find /usr/share/texmf/dvips/ -name "*map" -type f
>> /usr/share/texmf/dvips/misc/pcrr8rn.map
>> /usr/share/texmf/dvips/misc/eurosym.map
>>
> the last one is not in 2.0, is it?
It's in tetex-extra, according to
$ dlocate eurosym.map; dlocate -l tetex-extra
tetex-extra: /usr/share/texmf/dvips/misc/eurosym.map
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=====================-=====================-============================================================
ii tetex-extra 2.0.2-6 Additional library files of teTeX
pn tetex-extra-fonts <none> (no description available)
>> /usr/share/texmf/dvips/psnfssx/ptm8y.map
>> /usr/share/texmf/dvips/psnfssx/phv8y.map
>> /usr/share/texmf/dvips/psnfssx/pcr8y.map
>>
> these files seem to call the fonts with another encoding. Not sure,
> if we should use them.
>
> Readme:
> The map files
> ptm8y.map phv8y.map pcr8y.map
> are just included for completeness.
But whether they are read is determined by the entries in
updmap.cfg. Hence it shouldn't do any harm if we do include them - and
some users might want to change updmap.cfg and use them.
>> Therefore I'm wondering: Now that the map files have their own
>> subdirectory texmf/fonts/maps/, shouldn't we simply move the whole
>> dir to /etc/texmf/maps and create a link in texmf/fonts/?
>>
> As first step yes. What about fonts/map/fontname ?
Fontname should stay in /usr/share, you're right.
> I guess, we only
> have to move map/{dvipdfm,dvips,pdftex} and then link these back.
Good suggestion.
> Further: the files generated by updmap now seem to be in it's own
> subdir. We can move that subdirs out to
> /var/lib/texmf/web2c/{dvipdfm,dvips,pdftex}/updmap and then link them
> back to map/{dvipdfm,dvips,pdftex}/updmap . Yes, that will give us a
> softlink sitting in map/{dvipdfm,dvips,pdftex}, which are softlinks
> itself (or we can link them directly into /etc). It will close
> #213310 without having to deal with other packages.
Sounds reasonable, I'll have a look at this.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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