[OS X TeX] right place for a .map line

[Gary L. Gray]

On Oct 14, 2005, at 8:46 AM, Gerben Wierda wrote:

> On Oct 14, 2005, at 10:56, Franck Pastor wrote:
>
>
>>
>> Le 14-oct.-05 à 10:44, Peter Dyballa a écrit :
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Am 14.10.2005 um 08:31 schrieb Alexander Mehlmann:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Is there a better place to place the
>>>>
>>>> map +tu.map
>>>>
>>>> line?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes: it's the command line!
>>>
>>> Put the MAP file for example into /usr/local/teTeX/share/ 
>>> texmf.local/fonts/map/dvips/updmap (sudo necessary), run a 'sudo  
>>> texhash' and finish minutes later with
>>>
>>>     sudo -H updmap-sys --nohash --enable Map=tu.map
>>>
>>> This line will write an entry into /usr/local/teTeX/share/ 
>>> texmf.local/web2c/updmap.cfg and recreate all MAP files for  
>>> dvips, dvipdfm, and pdftex in /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/ 
>>> fonts/map/{dvips,dvipdfm,pdftex}/updmap.
>>>
>>
>> The other possibility, if i have well learned Gerben's lessons, is  
>> to place the Map file in
>>
>> ~/Library/texmf/fonts/map
>>
>> and to run from the command line
>>
>> updmap --enable Map tu.map
>>
>> (without sudo, etc.) It's a clean install, that also doesn't risk  
>> to be hurt by a latter update and doesn't need any texhash or  
>> mktexlsr, but it's for a single user's use. If there are other  
>> users in your system, they are not concerned. It works well, I've  
>> just checked it for another map file
>>
>
> But I'd rather not have people do this unless they are TeXperts.  
> Because any run of the TeX i-Package later will ignore what is  
> there and I can imagine the support questions that come out of  
> that. The cat is out of the bag, though.

OK, let me see if I understand this since I really do want to get it  
right and, as I said before, my head is spinning with all this new  
stuff.

So I should take everything that I currently have in:

~/Library/texmf/

and put it in:

/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/

Is that correct? Or, does this just apply to fonts and font-related  
files? If I do this and I re-install TeX, what happens? Does  
everything in there disappear? The nice thing about:

~/Library/texmf/

is that it is in *my* home directory and *I* control it.

Please advise so that my head stops spinning. My neck is starting to  
hurt. :-)

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