Re: Bug#351333: cid-x.map is almost empty

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Hi,

> > > I've checked, tetex-base, and it provides map files in 
> > > 	/usr/share/texmf-tetex/fonts/map/
> > > and has files under
> > > 	/etc/texmf/updmap.d/
> > > 
> > > Probably ptex-base should provide map files somewhere,
> > > so that it can be used by dvipdfmx.
> 
> The way how fonts are to be installed for TeX-related programs is
> documented in the Debian TeX policy contained in the tex-common package.
> 
> > > updmap manpage tells me 
> > > 
> > >    updmap is a utility that creates font configuration files for
> > > dvips(1), pdftex(1), xdvi(1), ps2pk(1), gsftopk(1), dvipdfm(1) and
> > > (soon) dvipdfmx(1).
> > > 
> > > whatever that means, it's probably not yet supported.
> 
> I think the main problem is that dvipdfmx understands some special
> syntax, which none of the other programs understand:
> 
> [...]
> > bsmi@Big5@ ETen-B5-H bsmi00lp
> [...]
> 
> Since no other program understands this <tfmname>@<sfdname>@, it has to
> go to a different map file. Until updmap is able to handle this, some
> other way of dealing with this is necessary.

That sounds like a good reason to revert the change then.  For the
time being, I'll add workarounds; we can really think about something
better later.

regards,
	junichi
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