Bug#22889: marked as done (dvips, mktexpk and gsftopk search for psfonts.map in only one source tree)
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Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 23:07:09 +0200
From: Alexander Shumakovitch <shurik@mpim-bonn.mpg.de>
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Subject: dvips, mktexpk and gsftopk search for psfonts.map in only one source tree
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dvips, mktexpk and gsftopk look for psfonts.map file in only one location. It
means, that if one wants to add some PS fonts, he/she should either change the
file /usr/lib/texmf/dvips/base/psfonts.map, which is against Debian policy, or
copy the whole contents of that file to /usr/local/lib/texmf/dvips/psfonts.map
and then make the changes there, which is also not good, since this'll have
to be repeated every time the main psfonts.map is changed.
Well, for dvips one can specify another font file to load with an -p option
(that's what I did), but this doesn't work with mktexpk and gsftops. It's
impossible to include another file from psfonts.map either. On the other hand,
this works perfectly with texfonts.map file. When I added another one to
/usr/local/lib/texmf tree, both that file and the standard one were loaded by
dvips, gsftops and all the other programs. Is it very complicated to deal with
psfonts.map in the same way?
The simplest solution could be to make psfonts.map a conffile, move it to
/etc/texmf and link it back to its original location, but this is still not
good enough. teTeX 0.9 is designed to work with multiple source trees. This
fits perfectly into the Debian policy and provides very convenient way to
merge personal data with standard distribution. But such a handling of
psfonts.map file (and, possibly, others?) violates this rule --- two source
trees can't have their own files and must share the same one.
Thanks a lot in advance!
--- Shurik.
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Subject: Re: dvips, mktexpk and gsftopk search for psfonts.map in only one
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Long ago...
Alexander Shumakovitch <shurik@mpim-bonn.mpg.de> wrote:
> Package: tetex-base
> Version: 0.9-7
>
> dvips, mktexpk and gsftopk look for psfonts.map file in only one location=
. It
> means, that if one wants to add some PS fonts, he/she should either chang=
e the
> file /usr/lib/texmf/dvips/base/psfonts.map, which is against Debian polic=
y, or
> copy the whole contents of that file to /usr/local/lib/texmf/dvips/psfont=
s.map
> and then make the changes there, which is also not good, since this'll ha=
ve
> to be repeated every time the main psfonts.map is changed.
psfonts map is a file generated by teTeX's updmap script since many
versions. In tetex-1, the script itself was a conffile, allowing for
easy inclusion of additional stuff, and in 2.0 there's update-updmap. So
this bug is fixed at least since 2.0.2, if not in woody.
Regards, Frank
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Frank K=FCster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z=FCrich
Debian Developer
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