[OS X TeX] Questions about reinstalling fonts

[André Bellaïche]

Le 30 déc. 06 à 14:54, Bruno Voisin a écrit :

> Le 28 déc. 06 à 14:33, André Bellaïche a écrit :
>
>> Suppose that I have bought from Adobe the Sabon fonts, and that I  
>> have installed them in teTeX, following the guidelines of the Font  
>> Installing Guide, by Philip Lehman. The family name for these  
>> fonts is psb.
>>
>> 1) The fonts and the auxiliary files have been put by fontinst in  
>> various places of the texmf.local tree. What should I do if I want  
>> to install TeXLive to replace teTeX ?
>
> Place the fonts and files at the corresponding places within the  
> texmf.local tree of TeXLive (now gwTeX, I think), then run "sudo  
> texhash" (or "sudo mktexlsr", which is exactly the same) in order  
> to make TeX aware of the addition.
>
>> 2) Suppose I want to install the psb family on another mac. What  
>> should I do ? Run fontinst another time ? But the guide told me to  
>> throw to the basket all the files used by fontinst which were no  
>> more useful. Transfer the Sabon/psb subtree of texmf.local to the  
>> other mac ? The (virtual) psb subtree is so entangled with other  
>> subtrees of texmf.local (as utopia) that this is practically  
>> impossible. Or does it existe some Unix commands that makes the  
>> job in one time ?
>
> Not that I'm aware of. You need to transfer all the Sabon-related  
> files from the original texmf.local tree manually to the  
> corresponding places in the new texmf.local tree, then run texhash  
> as above. Don't transfer the whole texmf.local tree: this is where  
> TeX stores the formats that it builds, and a number of other  
> configuration files that it generates; transferring these files  
> from one Mac to another could only create problems (such as non- 
> matching binaries -- such as tex, not inside texmf.local -- and  
> format files -- such as plain.fmt, inside texmf.local).

Well, in the meantime, I have transferred the texmf.local tree, and  
it doesn't work. I will reinstall the old texmf.local directory, and  
do as you suggest. Instead of transferring by hand (I mean by hand  
and mouse) I can use theUnix cp commands suggested by Philip Lehmann.
>
>> 3) I may also want to give the fonts to a colleague using MikTeX  
>> on a PC.
>
> I don't think the font license would allow this. You can transfer  
> all the support files, but not the .pfb files which are the font  
> itself and are not free.

But, if its lab or publisher buy the fonts, I may give him my pfb's,  
without making them again.
>
>> What I would like is the following:
>>
>>  - Put all the relevant files in a single directory. All  
>> the .afm, .tfm, . vf, .fd and .pfb files have been already put in  
>> one directory (I don't remember if I did it, or fontsint did it).  
>> I have only to add the sabon.sty and the psb.map files.
>>
>> - Transfer this directory into the directory which contains some  
>> xxx.tex file. Add in the preamble of xxx.tex the command  
>> \usepackage{sabon} and work.
>>
>> I have tried this on my mac. The problem is that LaTeX does'nt  
>> search inside the directories. I have tried texhash, but texhash  
>> scans only a small number of predefined directories, not the whole  
>> disk, and the texhash man page is rather puzzling.
>
> TeX and related tools (such as dvips) may scan indeed the current  
> directory for some files (such as .tex, .sty and .fd files), but  
> I'm not sure that would work for all files (such as .tfm, .vf  
> and .map files). You need to check, using kpsewhich.
>
> Namely, try in Terminal (see section 3.5 of /usr/local/gwTeX/ 
> texmf.texlive/doc/kpathsea/kpathsea.pdf):
>
> 	kpsewhich --show-path=.tex
> 	kpsewhich --show-path=.tfm
> 	kpsewhich --show-path=.vf
> 	kpsewhich --show-path=.map
> 	kpsewhich --show-path=.pfb
>
> I just did: it seems the answer in all cases starts with ".",  
> meaning the current directory (the one where the .tex file being  
> typeset resides) is searched first for all these file types.

What I would like is that not only "." be accessible, but also all  
the subtree of ".", you might say ". + ls-R". Because people get  
confused with fifty or so files are added in the middle of their .tex  
and .sty files.

In

kpsewhich --show-path=.pfb
.:/Users/andre/Library/texmf/fonts/type1//:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/ 
texmf.local/fonts/type1//:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/fonts/ 
type1//:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/type1//:!!/usr/ 
local/teTeX/share/texmf/fonts/type1//

you mean that "." is the current directory and ":" is a separator ! I  
had seen that, but I could not figure out what it meant.


> Some more research is required to determine exactly what may be  
> going wrong.
>
> Bruno Voisin

Thank you for all.

André Bellaïche
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