Bug#426790: mathpple.map should be listed in updmap.cfg
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 09:13 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> 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.
> `----
>
Thanks, good idea! Was a little bit late, I admit :-P
Greetings,
Ionut
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