[tex-live] getnonfreefonts --help

[Lars Madsen]

Neal Becker wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Lars Madsen wrote:
>> Neal Becker wrote:
>>> On Friday 23 January 2009, Lars Madsen wrote:
>>>> getnonfreefonts --help states
>>>>
>>>> getnonfreefonts installs fonts in $TEXMFHOME.
>>>> getnonfreefonts-sys installs fonts in $TEXMFLOCAL.
>>>>
>>>> for a non technical user who does not know anything about the difference
>>>> between $TEXMFHOME and $TEXMFLOCAL, I would suggest changing this.
>>>>
>>>> At least make sure that the user knows that getnonfreefonts will install
>>>> locally for this user only, whereas getnonfreefonts-sys installs for all
>>>> users.
>>>>
>>>> $TEXMFLOCAL does not really sound global...
>>>>
>>>> /daleif
>>> Here's what I get:
>>>
>>> TEXMFHOME=/home/nbecker/texmf getnonfreefonts -l
>>> ! ERROR: The variable TEXMFHOME is not set.
>>>
>>> I am not a tex newb, but I find this _very_ confusing.  What's wrong
>>> here?
>> which shell are you using here?
>>
>> under bash it might be more correct to use
>>
>> export TEXMFHOME=/home/nbecker/texmf
>> getnonfreefonts -l
>>
>> (untested)
> 
> Nope, under bash:
> VARIABLE=VALUE command
> 
> does exactly the same thing, except that VARIABLE is only set while command is 
> executed.
> 

yes you are right.

when we are at it the output of just running

getnonfreefonts -l

is also confusing, it lists that

------------------------------------------
Installation directory: /home/daleif/texmf
------------------------------------------

[snip list of fonts not installed]

but why doesn't it test whether the fonts are actually installed 
globally on the system, taht would be a nice addition.




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/daleif