[OS X TeX] .texlive2008
Michael Sharpe
msharpe at ucsd.edu
Sun Sep 7 02:59:18 CEST 2008
On Sep 6, 2008, at 5:09 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
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> On Sep 6, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Michael Sharpe wrote:
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>> I noticed that ~/.texlive2008, unlike ~.texlive2007, is (correctly)
>> owned by the user. There seems to be at least one unintended
>> consequence of this change. Eddie Kphler's otftotfm, which converts
>> otf fonts to a form usable to pdftex, writes the fonts, the vf,
>> enc, map and tfm files to the first writable entry in $TEXMF, which
>> by default is now a subdirectory of ~/.texlive2008. Given the
>> temporary nature of this directory, it would seem wise to move
>> those files to either texmf-local or ~/Library/texmf.
>>
>> Note that this affects otfinst.py, which is frequently used as a
>> front end to otftotfm.
>>
>> Michael
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> Why do you think that directory is temporary?
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When MacTeX 2009 comes along, $TEXMFVAR will not longer point to
~/.texlive2008, and any fonts or font setup files in that folder will
no longer be available.
Michael
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