[lucida] Installing BH Lucida on teTeX

[Frank Shute]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 06:08:30AM -0500, Axel E. Retif wrote:
>
> On  29 May, 2010, at 04:29, Frank Shute wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> 
> > I installed TeXLive after having messed around with teTeX for a couple
> > of hours but I'm exactly where I started.
> 
> TeXLive 2009 is good. I think it will be easier now.

Great :)

> 
> > latex seems to work; pdflatex, xdvi and dvips can't find the fonts.
> > 
> > Yet:
> > 
> > $ updmap-sys --quiet --listavailablemaps | grep lucida 
> > Map lucida.map
> > 
> > I unpacked the lucida tarball under:
> > 
> > /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist
> 
> I would rather have used /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/, but I
> guess it won't matter much.
>  
> > having given up on trying to get a local tree going.
> > 
> > Ran:
> > 
> > # mktexlsr
> > # updmap-sys --enable Map lucida.map
> > 
> > The first time I ran that 2nd command it complained that lucida.map
> > was not found.
> 
> Did you run these commands first as a normal user ($) or as root (#)?

root

> 
> If the first ($), I think you might have an invisible directory
> .texlive2009 in your $HOME with psfonts.map and pdftex.map (and
> maybe updmap.cfg).

.texlive2009 is neither in my $HOME or roots $HOME

> 
> Try
> 
> kpsewhich updmap.cfg             You should get
> 
> /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg

Yep.

> 
> kpsewhich psfonts.map            It should be
> 
> /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.map

Yes.

> 
> kpsewhich pdftex.map             You should get
> 
> /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map

Yes.

> 
> Even if you get these results (and more so if you don't), I would
> delete .texlive2009 in your $HOME (TeXLive will re-create it when it
> needs it).

As I said, doesn't exist.

> 
> Now --- 1) as root run  mktexlsr; 2) check if
> 
> /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg
> 
> has `` Map lucida.map ''; if it does, run, as root,

Yes.

> 
> updmap-sys

Did that.

> 
> if it doesn't, run again, also as root,
> 
> updmap-sys --enable Map=lucida.map
> 
> 3) now check if
> 
> /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.map
> 
> and
> 
> /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map
> 
> have indeed Lucida fonts enabled, with lines like
> 
> hlcbot8r LucidaTypewriterBoldOblique "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" <8r.enc <lbtbo.pfb

No, a search shows that the string "Lucida" is not present in either
of those files.

> 
> If they do, dvips and pdflatex should work. If they don't, please report back.
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Axel
> 
 
Many thanks for your help Axel, I feel we're making progress now.


Regards,

-- 

 Frank

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