[XeTeX] Re: [MacTeX] XeTeX

Bruno Voisin Bruno.Voisin at hmg.inpg.fr
Mon Apr 12 22:27:28 CEST 2004


> The one in share/texmf/web2c is bluntly replaced (with the entire tree
> there). The one you can change is /usr/local/teTeX/texmf.cnf where you
> find the differences with respect to teh standard setup (which does
> have a few problems).

Then I think there is a design flaw in the install process for XeTeX,
because the texmf.cnf that it modifies is the one in share/texmf/web2c.
> From the postflight file in the .pkg wrapper:
> # try to edit texmf.cnf to create an OTFFONTS entry
> # if there doesn't seem to be one already present
>
> if [ -e /Library/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf ]; then
>         echo "attempting to edit texmf.cnf" >> /tmp/xetex-install/log
>         /usr/bin/perl -i.bak -e '$/=undef; $_=<>; 
> s@(\nT1FONTS.*\n)@\1\n%
>         OpenType fonts\nOTFFONTS = .;\$TEXMF/fonts/otf//\n@ unless
>         m@\nOTFFONTS@; print'
>         /Library/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf> fi
and actually my share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf files contains since the 
install:

% OpenType fonts
OTFFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/otf//

Bruno


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