[OS X TeX] TeX i-Package updated, Easy Mac font support for PDFTeX

Alan Bowen acbowen at princeton.edu
Wed Dec 7 14:27:57 CET 2005


Gerben—

Is there an explanation somewhere of where these personal  
configurations files kept are and which ones may be deleted safely?  
It would be nice to make this problem just go away, so that there are  
no warnings or difficulties when installing i-Packages.

Alan

On Dec 7, 2005, at 8:03 AM, Gerben Wierda wrote:

>>
>> Am 07.12.2005 um 09:53 schrieb Gerben Wierda:
>>
>>> I added a check yesterday in the configure phase of the TeX i- 
>>> Package.
>>> If
>>> any user on your system has a personal configuration, you will be
>>> warned
>>> during configuration.
>>>
>>
>> You too could add to your script:
>>
>> 	sudo -H -u <user> updmap --nohash --enable Map=gtamacfonts.map
>> 	sudo -H -u <user> updmap --nohash --enable Map=<map file>
>>
>>
>> For every user for gtamacfonts.map and for every user and for  
>> every of
>> their private MAP files (I think updmap is clever to exit as soon  
>> as it
>> finds the MAP hasn't changed and it's already in the list). Just  
>> loops
>> ...
>
> I am not going to support personal configurations, the complexity  
> is too
> high, the maintenance and support effort is prohibitive. I tried  
> creating
> a way to do this last summer and had to abandon the idea. Apart  
> from this,
> it is killing for the performance of the i-Package.
>
> Removing personal configurations (as most are created accidentally  
> as the
> user is using old style instructions with new behaviour tools) is  
> as far
> as I will go in acknowledging that these personal configurations  
> exist.
>
> I'd be happy to hand over TeX i-Package maintenance to anyone who is
> interested in supporting the local configurations and everything  
> else that
> is not in there ;-)
>
> G
>
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