[tex-live] getnonfreefonts --help

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 15:07:46 CET 2009


2009/1/28 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>:
> On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>> 2009/1/28 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>:
>> >> ...
>> >> but why doesn't it test whether the fonts are actually installed
>> >> globally on the system, taht would be a nice addition.
>> >
>> > But why does mine say TEXMFHOME is not set?  How do I set it?  This is a
>> > brand-new installation.
>>
>> dou you have your TL bin directory at the beginning of PATH? Setting
>> TEXMFHOME should not be necessary because it's obtained by call to
>> kpsewhich. You can test it by
>>
>> kpsewhich --expand-path=\$TEXMFHOME
>>
>> It should return the value even without the need of explicit setting.
>> It is the very way used by getnonfreefonts.
>
> This is weird because normal commands (e.g. pdflatex) work fine:
> pdflatex amshelp.tex
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)
> [...]
> (/usr/share/texlive-2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsmath.sty
> ...
>
> Notice it found my texlive-2008 stuff just fine.
>
And how about getnonfreefonts? Does it find the right version?


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