[tex-live] font map files?

[Hans Hagen]

Hartmut Henkel wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>
>   
>>>>>>> "Zdenek" == Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>>>               
>>   >> AFAIK Context uses \pdfmapfile (I really wish that LaTeX will do
>>   >> the same in the future) and if it doesn't work I suppose that the
>>   >> ls-R database is not up-to-date.
>>   >>
>>   > pdflatex and pdftex can use \pdfmapfile too.
>>
>> Of course, but unfortunately dvips doesn't support it yet.  This is
>> required if LaTeX switches to \pdfmapfile.
>>     
>
> maybe even use \pdfmapline entries in the individual font-related style
> files, as then we get rid of quite some map files.
>
>   
the context solution for dvips is to pass the needed map file to dvips (dvips command line option -k) 

adding a special to dvips which is equivalent to -k seems trivial to me 


Hans 

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