[OS X TeX] teTeX (Weirda + fink system-tetex) cannot build fonts

[William McCallum]

Do "fink describe xdvi" and follow the porting instructions there. 
Fink's system-tetex is not a parallel TeX installation. It is designed 
to set things up so that fink knows about Gerben Weirda's installation.

On Friday, August 30, 2002, at 10:03 AM, Michael Betsch wrote:

>> I'm new to Macs, from 14+ years with SunOS and Solaris.  I'm not
>> sure if these problems are my goofs or fundamental misconfigurations
>> in the packages I've installed.
>>
>> To run LyX, I installed XDarwin, OroborOSX, Weirda's teTeX
>> installation, the fink system-tetex placeholder, and xdvi from fink.
>> All installed and configured without protest.  But when I run xdvi,
>> it seems to search for fonts in the wrong trees, and hence cannot
>> find the VFFONTS.  The result is that mktexpk does not build the
>> needed fonts for xdvi.
>>
>> As far as I can tell, it is searching in /var/tmp/texfonts instead
>> of in /usr/local/teTeX/texmf and /usr/local/teTeX/texmf.local -- and
>> I'm stumped.
>>
>> I'd welcome suggestions of how to get this right.  Thanks,
>
> You should not install two different TeX distributions on the same
> machine. GW's teTeX will do fine alone, but if you have two parallel
> TeX installations, they will mess up each other's configurations,
> environment variables etc. Very probably even this "placeholder" is
> enough to cause trouble. Maybe however you would need to reconfigure
> xdvi and compile it (remove all TeX before and install only one TeX).
> I have compiled xdvi from sources on my machine and it works and
> calls GW's teTeX (however xdvi runs rather slowly). BTW, there is a
> good "OS X only" dvi viewer (MacDviX) which would save you the
> overhead of running the X environment. Most other TeX environments
> for OS X produce PDF output (either via pdftex or via ps2pdf) which
> they display through the OS X pdf display functions; but there is
> also a ready-to-run emacs configured to call TeX-related programs. I
> find that as long as you do not need software that runs only on
> XDarwin it is worth the effort to avoid using the X Server as long as
> possible.
>
> Michael Betsch
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