[OS X TeX] Loss of Greek Porson font functionality

[Herbert Schulz]

On Dec 10, 2007, at 5:00 PM, David Derbes wrote:

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> On Dec 10, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
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>> On Dec 10, 2007, at 4:05 PM, David Derbes wrote:
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>>> 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
>>>
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>>
>> 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)
>
> Hi, Herb. My setup is Gerben Wierda's no longer actively supported  
> gwTeX. I guess I should jump to MacTeX, and hope that I don't have  
> to reinstall other stuff. Oh, well...
>
> Thanks.
>
> David D.


Howdy,

Hmmm... But it must then be an older version since the present version  
is not installed in /usr/local/teTeX/... but in /usr/local/gwTeX/....  
Do you have a TeX Distribution preference pane in System Preferences?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)