[tex-live] Pscryrliic Fonts for TeXLive
Edd Barrett
vext01 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 22 10:35:54 CEST 2007
On 21/08/07, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
> Edd Barrett writes:
> The main purpose of TEXMF[SYS]VAR is that in some cases the main texmf
> tree is read-only. Consider the live system where everything is on
> the DVD. In this case you need another directory tree for generated
> files.
Yup, understood.
>
> Setting TEXMFSYSVAR = $TEXMFMAIN should work. However, I'm wondering
> why the search order is wrong on your system. Did you change
> texmf.cnf yourself?
After thinking about it I think that there should be separate trees. I
have not ammended the search path. Today I was going to research what
the double exclaims meant in the TEXMF = {} parts.
>
> BTW, kpsewhich tells you which file is actually used, while kpsewhere
> shows all files with a particular name.
Yup.
>
> Regards,
> Reinhard
Many Thanks
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Best Regards
Edd
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