[XeTeX] help for the font problem

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 02.09.2006 um 05:37 schrieb Dalyoung:

> 2. some math font errors:
> 	*** fontmap psfonts.map not found; texmf.cnf may be broken

This and the other messages of fonts not found can be due to some  
disorder in the MAP file system. I'd recommend to launch i-Installer  
– and bring it into expert mode! I don't remember whether you can  
choose this mode or you need to set a preference. Only in expert mode  
you have in "Configure Only" the option to change entries in the MAP  
files system.

On the command line you can use updmap, or, for setting up the  
system's MAP files, sudo -H updmap-sys. It is a time consuming  
process. (Help can be requested with updmap --help, it's the same  
messages with or without -sys.)

sudo -H updmap-sys --syncwithtrees		to know all MAP file fragments
sudo -H updmap-sys --listavailablemaps		to see what's actually available

Now you would need to add entries (MAP file fragments) to the MAP  
files (psfonts.map for dvips, and maybe for xdv2pdf, too; dvipdfm.map  
for dvipdfm, dvipdfmx, and XeTeX's xdvipdfmx; pdftex.map for pdfTeX)  
like

	sudo -H updmap-sys --enable Map=<your choice>
	sudo -H updmap-sys --enable MixedMap=<your choice>

The messages about cmr9, cmmi9, and cmmi12 show that you need to  
install the CM-Super fonts. These provide the usual Computer Modern  
fonts in PostScript form. The message about ec-lmr12 indicates that  
you might not have installed the Latin Modern fonts, which you should  
do now.

If you have installed both, then you need to update the MAP files by  
"enabling" some MAP file fragments:

	Map lm-ec.map
	Map lm-texnansi.map
	Map lm-ts1.map
	MixedMap cm-super-t1.map
	MixedMap cm-super-ts1.map

(Latin Modern has so many differently named MAP file fragments that I  
really do not know which are the right ones. The three names above  
look reasonable, and they work for me. If you're sure that you'll  
never use the Y&Y or LY1 (input) encoding you could save some minutes  
by not enabling lm-texnansi.map. CM Super offers some Cyrillic  
encodings, too.)

Pay attention whether the Latin Modern fonts are installed in the  
system! This would allow their use in XeTeX (without ConTeXt). There  
is also a MAP file fragment that allows the use of some Mac system  
fonts in "normal" (La)TeX: Map gtamacfonts.map.

As you might know ConTeXt uses its own set of MAP files fragments. My  
description would make LaTeX use all these fonts. Could be you need  
to use in ConTeXt+XeTeX lines like

	\loadmapfile [psfonts]

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   Pete

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