Re: ConTeXt installtion and Debian

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Taco, hi all!

I am trying to fix all the problems for Debian ...

Another thing Taco wrote was:
> * TEXFORMATS as shipped with teTeX/TL is uncomplete: there is that
>    missing format-specific subdirectory. If you are not root, then
>    you have to create a local texmf.cnf to overrule the default
>    texmf.cnf. I have:
> 
>    TEXFORMATS    = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}
> 
>    because context's texexec pushes the $engine setting to the
>    environment, this works fine (Originally this was supposed to
>    be handled by kpathsea, but like I said, that never got off
>    the ground)

This change I have executed in the tex-common depot, it will not hurt
anybody.

> * TEXFONTMAPS is also wrong: it makes pdftex (and dvipdfmx as well,
>    I guess) find the mapfiles for dvips before their own mapfiles
>    (those are shipped with ConTeXt).
> 
>    I have:
> 
>    TEXFONTMAPS.dvipdfm  = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{dvipdfm,dvips,}//
>    TEXFONTMAPS.dvipdfmx = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{dvipdfm,dvips,}//
>    TEXFONTMAPS.pdftex   = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{pdftex,dvips,}//
>    TEXFONTMAPS.pdfetex  = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{pdftex,dvips,}//
>    TEXFONTMAPS.xetex    = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{xetex,pdftex,dvips,}//
>    TEXFONTMAPS.dvips    = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{dvips,pdftex,}//
>    TEXFONTMAPS =.;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{$progname,pdftex,dvips,}//;\
>                            $TEXMF/{$progname,pdftex,dvips}/{config,}//
> 
>    this works fine (but it is perhaps a bit too verbose).

Debian currently has:
TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/{fonts/,}map//;$TEXMF/dvips//

What about this? I am not completely convinced about it since with
updmap we generate input file for all the different programs.

For Taco: I have NOT installed the dvipdfm map files, only those from
fonts/map/pdftex/context and fonts/map/dvips/context

Furthermore I have added all the maps in fonts/map/dvips/context to the
updmap config file and called updmap-sys.

So now I can call texexec on several documents without any problems and
all the fonts are found.

What is the problem with
- removing the dvipdfm maps
- generating lines for dvipdfm(x), pdfetex, dvips from the dvips config
  files as done by updmap-sys

It would be great if we could straighten this out and get nice packages
for Debian rather soon.

Best wishes

Norbert

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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>                    Università di Siena
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org>                         Debian TeX Group
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