Bug#561352: latex: generates bad aligned tables

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 17.12.09 Otavio Salvador (otavio@ossystems.com.br) wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Denis Laxalde <dlaxalde@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

> > I have something similar on an other system without
> > texlive-fonts-extra installed and nothing in ~/.texmf-var/fonts/.
> > Since xdvi don't find bbding fonts, it then fails to display the
> > green checkmarks (! instead) and moves respective table lines left...
> > (capture attached)
> 
> I have texlive-fonts-extra installed.
> 
> However removing .texmf-var/fonts fixed the problem. It looks
> strange to me since latex should update those files in case it is
> needed, shouldn't it?
> 
So what you need is a functionality in mktexpk to determine if a
pk-file (to be read by xdvi) is older than the related mf source
file. I guess it is hard to implement, the only creteria would be the
time stamps of the source and the created files. Even if this is
checked your generated file could be younger than the source file and
it won't help you. I don't know if it is possible to determine if a
mf is the source of an existing pk file, I guess not.

H.
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