[OS X TeX] Loss of Greek Porson font functionality

[Herbert Schulz]

On Dec 10, 2007, at 4:05 PM, David Derbes wrote:

>
> Thanks, Pete, but the file porsonel.enc is in the folders as told me  
> by Antonis, and I can open the files with TextMate. In fact in an  
> act of desperation I put it into two of the texmf trees,
> texmf.local and texmf.tetex. No change.
>
> Ran DiskWarrior, repaired permissions, installed 10.4.11, repaired  
> permissions, re-ran texhash, you name it...
>
> I'm flummoxed.
>
> I'm going to try to install the font on my laptop. I suppose I could  
> reinstall MacTeX.
>
> Best wishes,
> David Derbes
> U of Chicago Lab Schools
>


Howdy,

How old is your teTeX system? At some point the places you put files,  
especially font related files, changed. It might be worth updating to  
gwTeX or MacTeX; the former is very nice subset of TeX Live 2007 while  
the latter is a full TeX Live 2007 distribution.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)