Bug#426790: mathpple.map should be listed in updmap.cfg

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Ionut Georgescu <george@pks.mpg.de> wrote:

> mathpple is unusable because the math italic fonts are not available.
> For this, mathpple.map should be included in updmap.cfg. I have appended
> the following lines to /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10texlive-base.cfg
>
> MixedMap psfonts.amz
> MixedMap mathpple.map

That's a bad idea.  Please follow the advice in the TeX-on-Debian
document:

,----
| In order to make updates smooth, you should avoid editing system-wide
| files as far as possible, and instead add new files to change
| settings. For texmf.cnf snippets, this is particularly easy, since
| earlier entries override any later entries. Only for removing settings
| from fmtutil.cnf, updmap.cfg or language.dat is it necessary to edit
| existing files.
`----

Regards, Frank




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