[OS X TeX] New Pretest Versions

[Murray Eisenberg]

On 26 May 2014 12:23:35 -0500, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

> On May 26, 2014, at 12:07 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I just installed mactex-20140524.pkg on a mid-2011 iMac running OS X 10.9.3, where mactex-2013 was already installed.
>> 
>> Three questions:
>> 
>> (1) Should TeX Live Utility still be Version 1.17, dated Oct 29, 2013? That's all I find.
>> 
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> TLU 1.17 is the still the up to date version.
> 
>> (2) When I open that app, it complains that the selected Repository is for 2013, whereas I'm using TeX Live 2014. Is there some repository to which I can point just for testing purposes (not that there would be any updates to packages yet)?
>> 
> 
> To update you need to use one of the pretest repositories listed at <http://www.tug.org/texlive/mirmon/>. Click on a repository reasonably close to you to open that repository and then copy the address. Open TLU and the Configure->Manage Repositories; press the + and paste the repository address there. Then make that your Home repository (you change it again when MacTeX 2014 is released) by clicking the Use As Home button.
> 
>> (3) Should the version of TeXShop.app be 3.36.1 still?
> 
> TeXShop 3.36.1 is the up to date version.
> 
>> 
>> Issue, related to (2) above:
>> 
>> I tried TeXing a book and am getting some "Font not found" fatal errors that I don't get if I change back to TeX Live 2013. I presume the cause is that updmap hasn't been run yet by TeX Live Utility, since I couldn't do anything with it given the repository mismatch. 
>> 
>> What should I do as a work-around until such time as I can get a legitimate TeX Live 2014 repository URL and update, which causes updmap to be run automatically?
>> 
>> Note that my local texmf tree is ~/Library/texmf.  Hence I don't want to mess things up by entering the wrong command (updmap vs. updmap-sys) as the wrong user (me vs. su) at the command line in order to update what TeX knows about my local fonts.
>> 
> 
> Where do you have your fonts; in your personal tree (starting at ~/Library/texmf) or the texmf-local tree (starting at /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local)?
> 
> Did you ever create an updmap.cfg file and place it in the proper place? If not, please download and read `TeXLive2012+Changes.pdf.zip' from <https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10932738/index.html> and ask about any problems you encounter. If you already did that simply run
> 
> updmap
> 
> IFF the fonts are in your personal tree or
> 
> sudo -H updmap-sys
> 
> IFF the fonts are in the texmf-local tree.

OK! I chose one of the pretest repositories for TL 2014, saw there were available updates, did the update, and that ran updmap automatically. And since I still had my udmap.cfg and had the TL Utility preference checked for "Automatically enable fonts in my home directory", this took care of adding the fonts from ~/Library/texmf.  So apparently I have no need now to run the command-line utilities to update fonts.

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