[OS X TeX] font installation

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Sep 22, 2018, at 7:17 AM, Themis Matsoukas <tmatsoukas at icloud.com> wrote:
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> Herb,
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>> On Sep 22, 2018, at 7:57 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
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>> While installing in the personal tree works fine I generally recommend installation in the texmf-local tree.
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> Can you elaborate? Is there an advantage?
> 
> Themis

Howdy,

The main advantage is that you don't have to remember to run updmap-user when fonts are updated by tlmgr (via TLU). I'm a bit lazy and, as age takes its toll, would forget to do that until I discover that I need to use a newly installed or updated fonts and the system can't find it. Recent versions of TLU alleviate that necessity so it certainly isn't strictly necessary.

I also have more than one user on my system and placement of fonts in the texmf-local tree makes them available to all users.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)