[tex-live] updmap and TEXMFHOME

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 4 December 2010 Robin Fairbairns wrote:

 > Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
 > 
 > > I thought that it's sufficient to put \pdfmapline into the .fd file
 > > because this is loaded on demand:
 > > 
 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > > \ProvidesFile{t1zch.fd}
 > >    [2010/10/29 Fontinst v1.933 font definitions for T1/zch.]
 > > 
 > > \pdfmapline{=zchb8r  CharterBT-Bold                   <8r.enc <bchb8a.pfb}
 > > \pdfmapline{=zchbi8r CharterBT-BoldItalic             <8r.enc <bchbi8a.pfb}
 > > \pdfmapline{=zchbo8r CharterBT-Bold  ".167 SlantFont" <8r.enc <bchb8a.pfb}
 > > \pdfmapline{=zchr8r  CharterBT-Roman                  <8r.enc <bchr8a.pfb}
 > > \pdfmapline{=zchri8r CharterBT-Italic                 <8r.enc <bchri8a.pfb}
 > > \pdfmapline{=zchro8r CharterBT-Roman ".167 SlantFont" <8r.enc <bchr8a.pfb}
 > > 
 > > \DeclareFontFamily{T1}{zch}{}
 > > [...]
 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > > 
 > > But I get:
 > > 
 > > [2]
 > > (/opt/tex/texlive/texmf-zcharter/tex/latex/zcharter/t1zch.fd) [3] [4]
 > > (./testmapline.aux)
 > > kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 zchr8r
 > > mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for zchr8r.
 > > mktexpk: perhaps zchr8r is missing from the map file.
 > > kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
 > > 
 > > Please note that the error occurs after all pages had been shipped
 > > out.
 > > 
 > > The following works:
 > > 
 > > \input t1zch.fd
 > > {\usefont{T1}{zch}{m}{n}Text}
 > > 
 > > And even this:
 > > 
 > > {\usefont{T1}{zch}{m}{n}Text}
 > > \input t1zch.fd
 > > 
 > > Don't know yet how \usefont loads the .fd file.
 > 
 > it runs with nfss catcodes, which (among other things) ignores spaces,
 > which is (of course) death to map files.
 > 
 > if you preceded the loading with something setting the catcode of space
 > (and so on) back, and then reset using \nfss at catcodes afterwards, your
 > code would work.

Thanks, Robin.  This hint saved me a lot of time.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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