[OS X TeX] Minor upgrade: Releasse Candidate 3b

[Nigel King]

Dear Gerben,
I think there is a problem with context fonts on this distribution.

I am running 10.2.1 and I downloaded the Friday images from below onto a
machine partition that previously had not had tetex installed. I installed
into the default locations so that texmf is in
 /usr/local/tetex/share/texmf/

Short test programs appear to run in latex, including when using
 \usepackage{pslatex}

In context however I cannot get the fonts to work properly and it appears to
be because of a problem with "tex root". For instance the command
 texfont --encoding=ec --batch type-tmf.dat
Fails on each command line with the message
     processing aborted : unknown tex root
I used a modified type-tmf.dat with
 --fontroot=/usr/local/tetex/share/texmf/
Added to each line
I also needed to copy ec.enc into the working directory from another
computer, and then the creation of fonts appears to work.

Compilation of a simple context file using cm fonts (ie normal defaults)
without font change is nearly OK, there is a warning however
Warning pdfetex (file
/usr/local/teTex/share/texmf.local/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg):  invalid line
in config file `pdf_minorversion 4'
Which seems to be your addition. Note the capital T in teTex here?

Using the lines
 \setupencoding[default=ec]
 \setupbodyfont[pos]
Causes the message that
Warning: pdfetex (file ec-raw-utmr8a): Font ec-raw-utmr8a at 720 not found
And the font is not incorporated leaving a blank page. The tfm file
/usr/local/tetex/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/urw/times/ec-raw-utmr8a.tfm
Is present on the disc.

It appears that all of these problems stem from the tex root for fonts not
being correct somewhere. Does the capital T have anything to do with it? I
am now at my limit of knowledge!!

TIA. I hope this is clear.

-- 
Nigel

> From: Gerben Wierda <Sherlock at rna.nl>
> Reply-To: "TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List" <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 08:56:14 +0100
> To: macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu (TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List)
> Subject: [OS X TeX] Minor upgrade: Releasse Candidate 3b
> 
> I have changed the handling authentication on packages. It is now
> possible to turn authentication on or off at will with a switch in the
> properties tab. Since authentication may linger on and you do not by
> definition get a password panel, you need a visual clue during
> installation etc to see if you are running authenticated. I therefore
> display the output of authenticated processes in red and
> unauthenticated in black.
> 
> http://www.rna.nl/ii.html for i-Installer and
> http://www.rna.nl/tex.html for the TeX volume.
> 
> G
> 
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