Re: luximono: problems and success
Joerg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> some time ago I expressed the wish to install fonts in my home dir and
> not lose the system fonts. This was implemented in the new tetex 3
> packages and today I tested it.
Very good to get practical experiences. Which version of the packages
did you use?
> I used the LuxiMono font. As said in the readme (of the tar archive) I
> installed *.pfb in ~/.texmf/fonts/type1/public/luxi and the *.afm files
> in ~/.texmf/fonts/afm/public/luxi.
>
> The zip file, shipped with the tar archive I unpacked in ~/.texmf. This
> intalled:
>
> tex/latex/luxi/t1ul9.fd
> tex/latex/luxi/ts1ul9.fd
> tex/latex/luxi/luximono.sty
> dvips/config/ul9.map
> fonts/map/vtex/ul9.ali
> doc/fonts/luxi/LICENSE
> doc/fonts/luxi/luximono.txt
> fonts/tfm/public/luxi/ul9b8a.tfm
> ...
> fonts/vf/public/luxi/ul9ro8t.vf
>
> The file dvips/config/ul9.map I moved into ~/.texmf-config/dvips/ and
> created a file ~/.texmf-config/updmap.d/10luximono.cfg with "Map up9.map"
> as contents.
This sounds all correct.
> After all this, I called updmap
Probably you also called update-updmap, right?
> (updmap-sys did not work,
> maybe is TEXMFSYSVAR and SYSCONFIG in updmap-sys wrong?)
updmap-sys will never act on home directories, it will always look at
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg and put its results below
/var/lib/texmf/fonts. That's the difference and the main purpose of
updmap-sys, compared to updmap.
Therefore as a user you should always use updmap.
> and voila I can
> use luximono with with latex (and pdflatex).
Oh, good. So there's no real problem, only a misunderstanding about
updmap-sys. Again the question about package versions, this time more
detailed: At which version did you read the manpage of updmap(-sys) and
other documentation? It changed a bit recently, so I'm wondering
whether the new text would have informed you better, or still needs to
be rephrased or extended.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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