[OS X TeX] right place for a .map line

[Gerben Wierda]

On Oct 14, 2005, at 10:56, Franck Pastor wrote:

>
> Le 14-oct.-05 à 10:44, Peter Dyballa a écrit :
>
>>
>> Am 14.10.2005 um 08:31 schrieb Alexander Mehlmann:
>>
>>
>>> Is there a better place to place the
>>>
>>> map +tu.map
>>>
>>> line?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yes: it's the command line!
>>
>> Put the MAP file for example into  
>> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/dvips/updmap (sudo  
>> necessary), run a 'sudo texhash' and finish minutes later with
>>
>>     sudo -H updmap-sys --nohash --enable Map=tu.map
>>
>> This line will write an entry into  
>> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/updmap.cfg and recreate all  
>> MAP files for dvips, dvipdfm, and pdftex in  
>> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/{dvips,dvipdfm,pdftex}/ 
>> updmap.
>
> The other possibility, if i have well learned Gerben's lessons, is to  
> place the Map file in
>
> ~/Library/texmf/fonts/map
>
> and to run from the command line
>
> updmap --enable Map tu.map
>
> (without sudo, etc.) It's a clean install, that also doesn't risk to  
> be hurt by a latter update and doesn't need any texhash or mktexlsr,  
> but it's for a single user's use. If there are other users in your  
> system, they are not concerned. It works well, I've just checked it  
> for another map file

But I'd rather not have people do this unless they are TeXperts.  
Because any run of the TeX i-Package later will ignore what is there  
and I can imagine the support questions that come out of that. The cat  
is out of the bag, though.

G
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