[OS X TeX] [ANN] TeX Live Utility 0.5

Axel E. Retif axel.retif at mac.com
Thu Jan 8 17:12:12 EST 2009


On  8 Jan, 2009, at 15:55, Herbert Schulz wrote:

> On Jan 8, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Axel E. Retif wrote:
>
>> On  8 Jan, 2009, at 07:22, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 8, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Axel E. Retif wrote:
>>>
>>>> I keep my fonts (Lucida, Minion Pro) in ~/Library/texmf...,  
>>>> instead of /usr/local.../texmf-local [...]
>>>
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> That is what I used to do too but have now switched to using texmf- 
>>> local just to get those files out of my HOME directory tree.
>>
>> I think I will end up doing that, as fonts don't change that often,  
>> and keep ~/Library/texmf just for constantly changing packages,  
>> like pgf/TikZ from CVS.
>
> Howdy,
>
> [...]
>
> Incidentally, I keep a shell script in .../texmf-local/scripts/ to  
> set up the maps once and for all with a given MacTeX distribution.  
> Before tlmgr was fixed up I had to re-install MacTeX a few times  
> when things got messed up. The contents of the script are something  
> like
>
> [...]
>
> Hope this is helpful.

Of course it is! Thank you! I will adapt your script to load my font  
maps. I'm a step closer to moving my fonts to texmf-local.

Thank you again.

Axel




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