Re: luximono: problems and success
Hello Frank,
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
> 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?
Oh sorry, I missed out them:
$ dpkg -l tete* |grep ^ii
ii tetex-base 3.0-6 Basic library files of teTeX
ii tetex-bin 3.0-5 The teTeX binary files
ii tetex-doc 3.0-3 The documentation component of the Debian te
ii tetex-extra 3.0-6 Additional library files of teTeX
>> After all this, I called updmap
>
> Probably you also called update-updmap, right?
Yes. Did that had any effect?
>> (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.
Ahh, you can lear everytime something new.
>> 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.
Yes.
> Again the question about package versions, this time more detailed: At
> which version did you read the manpage of updmap(-sys) and other
> documentation?
Never.
> 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.
I read the mail from Florent Rougon (<87k6ksd9dj.fsf@florent.maison> or
<news:4gvtQ-x4-7@gated-at.bofh.it>) on this list.
Bye, Jörg.
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