[OS X TeX] TeXLive i-Package update

[John Rawnsley]

On 31 Oct 2006, at 21:29, Gerben Wierda wrote:

> On Oct 30, 2006, at 23:18 , John Rawnsley wrote:
>
>>
>> On 30 Oct 2006, at 22:12, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>>
>>> Le 30 oct. 06 à 22:11, Gerben Wierda a écrit :
>>>
>>>> On 30 Oct 2006, at 15:07 , Bruno Voisin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> - I'm perplexed by the content of psfonts.map at the end of the  
>>>>> installation process: no info inside it for Computer Modern or  
>>>>> LaTeX fonts. This seems to be caused by the absence in the  
>>>>> distro of:
>>>>>
>>>>> cmother-bsr.map
>>>>> cmtext-bsr-interpolated.map
>>>>> cmtext-bsr.map
>>>>> latex-bsr.map
>>>>>
>>>>> Are Latin Modern fonts supposed to be used in place of these?
>>>>
>>>> I have no idea, I am just the middle man.
>>>>
>>>>> There are teTeX replacements of those .map files:
>>>>>
>>>>> /usr/local/TeXLive/texmf.texlive/fonts/map/dvips/tetex/bsr- 
>>>>> interpolated.map
>>>>> /usr/local/TeXLive/texmf.texlive/fonts/map/dvips/tetex/bsr.map
>>>>>
>>>>> However, they would overlap partly with:
>>>>>
>>>>> /usr/local/TeXLive/texmf.texlive/fonts/map/dvips/ams/ams-bsr- 
>>>>> interpolated.map
>>>>> /usr/local/TeXLive/texmf.texlive/fonts/map/dvips/ams/ams-bsr.map
>>>>> /usr/local/TeXLive/texmf.texlive/fonts/map/dvips/ams/ams-cmcsc- 
>>>>> bsr-interpolated.map
>>>>> /usr/local/TeXLive/texmf.texlive/fonts/map/dvips/ams/ams-cmex- 
>>>>> bsr-interpolated.map
>>>>
>>>> I just added the tetex maps for convenience. Maybe I should  
>>>> remove them
>>>
>>> I think there's a problem with the CM font setup: psfonts.map  
>>> contains apparently no info for them. This might explain John  
>>> Rawnsley's report earlier today <http://tug.org/pipermail/ 
>>> macostex-archives/2006-October/025361.html> about "a problem with  
>>> missing CM postscript (and some other fonts) when running  
>>> pdflatex or dvips".
>>>
>>> I can't check right now, as I'm not tonight on the Mac on which I  
>>> performed the install. I'll try to reproduce the install on my  
>>> current Mac, but on ADSL the downloads may take a bit of time.
>>
>> I think that all that's needed are more maps adding to
>>
>> /usr/local/TeXLive/texmf.texlive/fonts/map/dvips/
>>
>> from the TeX Live distribution. To test this I downloaded the cm,  
>> latex
>> and rsfs directories from
>>
>> ftp://ftp.tug.org/texlive/Contents/testinstalled/texmf-dist/fonts/ 
>> map/dvips/
>>
>> copied them into
>>
>> /usr/local/TeXLive/texmf.texlive/fonts/map/dvips/
>>
>> and reran the Configure stage. After this the fonts appear in  
>> psfonts.map
>> and are used by pdflatex and dvips.
>
> I have added these (cm, latex-fonts, rsfs) to the i-Package.

Thanks.

Unfortunately I don't know enough about the fonts in the list in
/usr/local/TeXLive/texmf/web2c/updmmap.cfg to know which others
should be included in a standard install. Maybe a font expert
could say.

John

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  John Rawnsley * <http://go.warwick.ac.uk/jhrawnsley>


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