Bug#397844: texlive-latex-extra: arev package causes ``This NFSS system is not set up properly.'' error

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Matthew Tylee Atkinson <M.T.Atkinson@lboro.ac.uk> wrote:

> Package: texlive-latex-extra
> Version: 2005.dfsg.2-2
> Severity: normal
>
> This document, which uses the arev package from this Debian package,
> causes an error when you try to compile it (in my case with pdflatex).
>
> When \usepackage{arev} is removed, the error goes away.  I have found
> very little on the web about what causes this; the only advice I did get
> hold of was to run ``updmap-sys --enable Map arev.map'' as root, which I
> did, to no avail.
>
> If you could provide any insight on this, I'd appreciate it!  I was very
> pleased to find that arev has been packaged for Debian, as I'd had
> problems when attempting to install it manually before.

This seems to be a problem in tex/latex/arev/ams-mdbch.sty.  I don't
think it has something to do with the Debian packaging.  Therefore I
guess some more googl'ing should help.

> ! LaTeX Error: This NFSS system isn't set up properly.
>
> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>  ...                                              
>                                                   
> l.6 \begin{document}
>                     
> For encoding scheme MDA the defaults cmr/m/n do not form a valid font shape

This encoding is declared in ams-mdbch.sty.

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