[lucida] Lucida installation problem

[Norbert Preining]

Hi David

Many errors:
* Wrong installation place
* Don't use updmap --enable on Debian
* ....

I am moving *today* so cannot answer in detail, give me a bit of time over the weekend.

Thanks

On August 3, 2017 11:28:07 PM GMT+09:00, David Saunders <david at symplectic.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Hello
>
>Several years ago I bought a copy of Lucida from TUG, and have been 
>using it happily in MikTeX. I now have a replacement laptop running
>Unix 
>rather than Windows (the version is Lubuntu 16.04.2) and I now want to 
>use Lucida on my new machine.
>
>I installed TeX Live from the TeX Collection 2017 DVD, and also 
>TeXworks. I then followed the instructions from the "Installing TeX 
>fonts - TeX Users Group" webpage, but get errors both from testfont and
>
>when attempting to compile lucida-sample.tex in TeXwoIrks.
>
>The puzzle is that, before the new laptop arrived, I tried out this 
>installation routine on another old laptop, and it works there, even 
>though I think I followed exactly the same procedure in the two cases 
>(with the sole exception that TeX Live on the old machine was the full 
>CTAN version, as I hadn't yet received the DVD).
>
>I'd be grateful for any advice.
>
>Thanks
>
>David
>
>
>Here is the result of texhash and updmap-sys, followed by the output of
>
>testfont:
>
>**********
>
>$ sudo texhash
>texhash: Updating /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R...
>texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST...
>texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
>texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
>texhash: Done.
>$ sudo updmap-sys --force --enable Map=lucida.map
>updmap [WARNING]: resetting $HOME value (was /home/david) to root's 
>actual home (/root).
>updmap will read the following updmap.cfg files (in precedence order):
>   /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
>   /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
>   /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg
>updmap may write changes to the following updmap.cfg file:
>   /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
>dvips output dir: "/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap"
>pdftex output dir: "/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap"
>dvipdfmx output dir: "/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvipdfmx/updmap"
>
>updmap is creating new map files
>using the following configuration:
>   LW35 font names                  : URWkb (default)
>   prefer outlines                  : true (default)
>   texhash enabled                  : true
>   download standard fonts (dvips)  : true (default)
>   download standard fonts (pdftex) : true (default)
>   kanjiEmbed replacement string    : noEmbed (default)
>   kanjiVariant replacement string  :  (default)
>   create a mapfile for pxdvi       : false (default)
>
>Scanning for LW35 support files  [  3 files]
>Scanning for MixedMap entries    [  6 files]
>Scanning for KanjiMap entries    [  0 files]
>Scanning for Map entries         [  9 files]
>
>Generating output for dvipdfmx...
>Generating output for ps2pk...
>Generating output for dvips...
>Generating output for pdftex...
>
>Files generated:
>   /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/updmap:
>        15758 2017-08-03 14:41:50 builtin35.map
>        21231 2017-08-03 14:41:50 download35.map
>        77550 2017-08-03 14:41:50 psfonts_pk.map
>        81401 2017-08-03 14:41:50 psfonts_t1.map
>        81396 2017-08-03 14:41:50 ps2pk.map
>           14 2017-08-03 14:41:50 psfonts.map -> psfonts_t1.map
>   /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap:
>        81403 2017-08-03 14:41:50 pdftex_dl14.map
>        79738 2017-08-03 14:41:50 pdftex_ndl14.map
>           15 2017-08-03 14:41:50 pdftex.map -> pdftex_dl14.map
>   /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/dvipdfmx/updmap:
>          281 2017-08-03 14:41:50 kanjix.map
>
>Transcript written on "/var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.log".
>updmap: Updating ls-R files.
>$
>
>*******
>
>$ tex testfont
>This is TeX, Version 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2015/Debian) (preloaded 
>format=tex)
>(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/knuth-lib/testfont.tex
>
>Name of the font to test = ecrm1095
>
>kpathsea: Running mktextfm ecrm1095
>/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source 
>abbreviation  for ecrm1095.
>/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update ?
>mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; 
>nonstopmode; input ecrm1095
>This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182818 (TeX Live 2015/Debian) (preloaded 
>base=mf)
>
>
>kpathsea: Running mktexmf ecrm1095
>! I can't find file `ecrm1095'.
><*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1095
>
>Please type another input file name
>! Emergency stop.
><*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1095
>
>Transcript written on mfput.log.
>grep: ecrm1095.log: No such file or directory
>mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; 
>input ecrm1095' failed to make ecrm1095.tfm.
>kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
>! Font \testfont=ecrm1095 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
><to be read again>
>                    \spaceskip
>\startfont ...ont \testfont =\fontname \spaceskip
>                                                   =0pt \leftline 
>{\sevenrm T...
>
>\init ...test = } \read -1 to\fontname \startfont
>                                                  \message {Now type a 
>test ...
>l.208 \ifx\noinit!\else\init
>                             \fi
>?
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