[tex-live] Pscryrliic Fonts for TeXLive

[Edd Barrett]

On 21/08/07, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
> Edd Barrett writes:
> The main purpose of TEXMF[SYS]VAR is that in some cases the main texmf
> tree is read-only.  Consider the live system where everything is on
> the DVD.  In this case you need another directory tree for generated
> files.

Yup, understood.

>
> Setting TEXMFSYSVAR = $TEXMFMAIN should work.  However, I'm wondering
> why the search order is wrong on your system.  Did you change
> texmf.cnf yourself?

After thinking about it I think that there should be separate trees. I
have not ammended the search path. Today I was going to research what
the double exclaims meant in the TEXMF = {} parts.

>
> BTW, kpsewhich tells you which file is actually used, while kpsewhere
> shows all files with a particular name.

Yup.

>
> Regards,
>   Reinhard

Many Thanks

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Best Regards

Edd

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