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Subject: kpathsea feature
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 14:17:12 +0100
From: Nicolai Langfeldt <janl@math.uio.no>
Someone here was complaining about the latex2e slides document class.
The lcmss8 fonts here were not very good. So I set about generating
and experimenting. Suddenly latex can't find lcmss8.tfm:
~ $ ./kpsexpand latex '$TFMFONTS' lcmss8.tfm
.:!!/local/TEX/lib/fonts//tfm
PICT: (null)
TEX: (null)
TFM: (null)
VF: (null)
Well, try some other font then?
~ $ ./kpsexpand latex '$TFMFONTS' cmr10.tfm
.:!!/local/TEX/lib/fonts//tfm
PICT: (null)
TEX: (null)
TFM: /local/TEX/lib/fonts/cm/tfm/cmr10.tfm
VF: (null)
Ok that's there. And lcmss8.tfm is in the database. Is the file gone?
/local/TEX/lib/fonts $ find | grep lcmss8
./latex/tfm/lcmss8.tfm
...
./latex/pk/lcmss8.tfm
...
Uhm. One in the pk dir too. That distracting I wonder?
/local/TEX/lib/fonts $ rm ./latex/pk/lcmss8.tfm
Rebuild database
~ $ ./kpsexpand latex '$TFMFONTS' lcmss8.tfm
.:!!/local/TEX/lib/fonts//tfm
PICT: (null)
TEX: (null)
TFM: /local/TEX/lib/fonts/latex/tfm/lcmss8.tfm
VF: (null)
Moral of this story: Don't keep fontfiles where they don't belong. It
makes kpathsea blind to them. Or wait for a fix if it hasn't been
fixed already.
This is kpathsea 2.5.
Thanks.
Nicolai
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Nicolai Langfeldt, janl@math.uio.no
Linux miscellanea, TeX stuff