[lucida] Install lucida from Y&Y on MacTeX

[Bruno Voisin]

Hi Maurizio, hi Reinhard,

For some reason I didn't get Maurizio's original message but got Reinhard's answer (I checked the Junk mailboxes, Maurizio's message isn't there).

Anyway, a classical problem on the Mac is having a combination of

- per-user setup, located in ~/Library/texlive/<year>/texmf-var/fonts/map/updmap/ and managed via updmap, and

- system-wide setup, located in /usr/local/texlive/<year>/texmf-var/fonts/map/updmap/ and managed via "sudo updmap-sys".

In that event, once the per-user setup is created by running "updmap" (without the -sys) it is the only one that is taken into account, no matter what. Whatever you put in texmf-local and whatever you do with updmap-sys afterwards, it won't matter.

In case that's the cause of your problem, just trash ~/Library/texlive/<year>/texmf-var/fonts/map/updmap/ and redo the magic with updmap-sys.

Personally I haven't run "sudo updmap-sys --enable [...]" or similar in years. What I do is create a file /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c/updmap.cfg containing lines like

Map lucida.map

then run "sudo updmap-sys" (it is run automatically at the end of the MacTeX install process). You're done! See "texdoc updmap".

Attached is a listing of my Lucida Type 1 install, which is working on an M1 MacBook Pro with MacTeX 2023 (over the years I have used various Lucida setups, originally one for the Mac purchased from Blue Sky Research in the 1990s -- fonts in LWFN format and metrics in suitcase format -- which I converted to teTeX, gwTex then MacTeX -- fonts in PFB format and metrics in TFM and VF formats -- by the turn of the century, then new setups purchased from TUG and PCTeX).

Hope this works,

Bruno


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> On 2 Aug 2023, at 19:57, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> On 2023-08-02 at 14:32:54 +0000, Mau V wrote:
> 
>> I purchased years ago the complete set of Lucida fonts (Type 1)
>> from Y&Y, now defunct (not from TUG). I was able to make it work
>> over the years putting them in one "localtexmf" folder which I have
>> been using for years with many installations of MiKTeX on WIN
>> machines. Thus, I assume I have all is needed, somewhere. I still
>> have a copy of that "localtexmf" folder, and I also have a copy of
>> some "Y&Y" folder where (I think) I put what I received or
>> downloaded from Y&Y. I am an old TeX/LaTeX user.  Now, my problem
>> is that I cannot make it work on my new MacBook Air (M1) where I
>> installed MacTeX (TeXlive, basically). MacTeX works perfectly well
>> but when, weeks ago, I tried to copy locatexmf into "texmf-local"
>> and then went through the steps suggested in the many docs I found
>> about installing fonts on texlive it didn't work. I got error
>> messages like 
>> ----------
>> kpathsea: Running mktextfm hlcrimamktextfm: Running mf-nowin
>> -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; ; nonstopmode; input
>> hlcrimaThis is METAFONT, Version 2.71828182 (TeX Live 2023)
>> (preloaded base=mf)kpathsea: Running mktexmf hlcrima! I can't find
>> file `hlcrima'. <*> ...jfour; mag:=1; ; nonstopmode; input hlcrima
>> Please type another input file name !  Emergency stop. <*>
>> ...jfour; mag:=1; ; nonstopmode; input hlcrima Transcript written
>> on mfput.log.grep: hlcrima.log: No such file or directory
>> -------------
> 
> Hi Maurizio,
> first of all you have to run mktexlsr.  This creates/updates the file
> database, which probably doesn't exist for texmf-local when you
> formerly used MiKTeX.
> 
> According to the error message the tfm file is not found and kpathsea
> tries to create ond ftom the Metafont sources.  But this should be
> fixed after running mktexlsr.
> 
> Then you have to run updmap-sys.  You get help with
> 
>  updmap --help
> 
> Regards,
>  Reinhard
> 
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