Re: ConTeXt installtion and Debian

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

(this again ended up in the old list...)

Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:

> It is worth noting that upstream teTeX (and probably TeX Live) uses
>
> TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/{fonts/map,}/{$progname,pdftex,dvips,}//
>
> IMO it would be best if we would go back to this path. Note that it does
> include the old path TEXMF/dvips. It also includes most of the specific
> things Taco mentioned.

I agree.  The only question is: Do we want to change this *now*, when
tex-common might enter sarge?

Currently, I get

$ kpsewhich --var-value=TEXFONTMAPS
.:{/home/frank/.texmf-config,/home/frank/.texmf-var,/home/frank/texmf,/etc/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-{texlive,tetex}}/{fonts/,}map//:{/home/frank/.texmf-config,/home/frank/.texmf-var,/home/frank/texmf,/etc/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-{texlive,tetex}}/dvips//

after changing to

TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/{fonts/map,}/{$progname,pdftex,dvips,}//

I get

$ kpsewhich --progname=pdftex --var-value=TEXFONTMAPS
.:{/home/frank/.texmf-config,/home/frank/.texmf-var,/home/frank/texmf,/etc/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf-{texlive,tetex}}/{fonts/map,}/{pdftex,pdftex,dvips,}//

So this *should* contain everything we need.  teTeX 3.0 only has

TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map//

so it seems the comment in our 55Fonts.cnf is from TeXlive?


Well, anyway, I think the result of this investigation is that we can
change it right now and get more, not less paths, but less cutter in the
kpsewhich output.

Regards, Frnak
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)