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[Murray Eisenberg]

On 8 Oct2020, at 12:38 PM, Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at math.fsu.edu> wrote:
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>> On Oct 8, 2020, at 11:55, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> On 8 Oct2020, at 2:18 AM,Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info <mailto:norbert at preining.info>> wrote:
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>>> Tlmgr is only responsibly for installing packages from TeX Live repositories, and uses updmap-sys to update the map files.
>>> 
>>> If you have personal fonts, we suggest one of the best practices listed here
>>> https://tug.org/texlive/scripts-sys-user.html <https://tug.org/texlive/scripts-sys-user.html>
>> 
>> The cited “best practices” does not address the common situation for Mac users who put all their local fonts, etc., in ~/Library/texmf.
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> Actually, best practices 1. and 3. would apply to MacOS: $TEXMFHOME expands to ~/Library/texmf . $TEXMFLOCAL expands to /Path/to/TeXLive/texmf-local.
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In the zsh Terminal shell on my system running macOS Catalina,

	echo $TEXMFHOME

gives an empty result.

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