[OS X TeX] My ! has disappeared in Times

[Herbert Schulz]

On Apr 26, 2006, at 3:53 PM, Ronald Bruck wrote:

> OK, I am going quietly crazy.  None of the things that Bruno  
> suggested worked, and so I thought I would install a more modern  
> version of the MathTime fonts, the MathTime Pro collection I bought  
> about a year ago (including Supplement A and Supplement B) from  
> PCTeX, but never got around to installing.
>
> So the first thing I have to do is fix my texmf.local.  I take all  
> the files which PCTeX provides and copy them into the correct  
> places in my texmf.local.  I patch web2c/updmap.cfg, run updmap,  
> then look at the log.  None of the mtpro maps "took".
>
> Hmmm.  Why not?  I use the terminal to go into /usr/local/teTeX/ 
> share/texmf.local/fonts/type1, and an ls shows me that the mtpro  
> folder I had copied into it doesn't exist!
>
> From the terminal I do an ln -s from the type1 directory to my  
> desktop.  The alias appears, I double-click it:  and there's the  
> mtpro folder!
>
> I can see it from the Finder, but I can't see it in Terminal.
>
> So I understand why teTeX punts to Metafont (which fails, since  
> there are no .mf files):  when I ran updmap, it never saw the font  
> files, so it didn't use the map files.  (As I saw when I read the  
> log.)  But why not?  Where'd they go?
>
> Presumably I have some aliases which are pointing somewhere I don't  
> realize they're pointing, but---nothing SHOWS to be an alias.
>
> Any ideas what gives?  BTW, my Concrete fonts from Micropress work  
> fine.  I used the same technique with them ???!!!
>
> This is Mac OS X Server 10.4.6.
>
> --Ron Bruck

Howdy,

Did you run

sudo mktexlsr

after installing the files? You must do that if you install in  
texmf.local rather than your home folder.

Also, did you run

sudo -H updmap-sys

rather than updmap?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)


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