Re: Bug#351525: dvipdfmx: how to properly implement map files support for dvipdfmx

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Forgottosend this to the teTeX list

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

> Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp> wrote:
>
>> The ideal situation is:
>>
>> 1. updmap-sys should handle dvipdfmx map files 
>>   (can't it do that? I need confirmation on this)
>
> It has no special treatment for dvipdfmx, and therefore it cannot handle
> the entries with @ properly.  We would need a different output file for
> dvipdfmx and a special treatment of these entries, which may not end up
> in pdftex's or dvips' font map files.
>
> On the other hand, it has been discussed whether texlive and teTeX
> should drop dvipdfm completely in favor of dvipdfmx.  In this case the
> change to updmap would be a little easier.
>
>> 2. have a directory of configuration files that dvipdfmx can
>>    read. (doesn't it already do that? need to check)
>>
>> 3. or failing that, implement update-dvipdfmx, which does something similar to what ptex-jisfonts is trying to do. It should probably write to /var/lib/ rather than /etc/texmf/dvipdfm/
>
> I think the best approach would be to bring together the dvipdfmx and
> texlive developers, and implement a general solution that can be used
> independently of Debian.
>
> Regards, Frank

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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)