On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 07:16:33PM +0100, Przemyslaw Iskra wrote: > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 04:36:52PM +0100, Zsolt Udvari wrote: > > > First: you must set TEXMFMAIN environment variable (this maybe isn't > > > error, but would be nice when shouldn't set). > > > Second: it missed *.fmt and I don't know how can I create. This the > > > biggest problem. > > It's done. > > > > Next problem: sometimes needs to create fonts, and there are few > > possibilities: > > - create the fonts to $HOME/.texlive-2008 directory - imho this is not > > too good solution > > - create the fonts to /var/lib/texmf (or any other directory) - it's > > the better, but there are problems with this. > > It must be writeable by all users. The idea, that its owner/group is > > 'texmf', and some files of texlive has sgid, doesn't work, because it > > calls 'mkdir', 'cp'. > > > > What should I do? > > Could you tell us more about those fonts ? As far as I understand this > is just some font cache. > - Is it generated for every shape and size ? > - How big are those files, compared to source ? > - How much time does it take to generate them ? > - How often same cache is used ? How probable is that different users > will be interested in same font cache ? > > Maybe we could generate this cache for fonts we distribute and place it > somewere under /usr/share ? And if a user needs some additional fonts > she could just use that $HOME/.tex... directory.
that's bit complicated. if you use different dpi for you dvi documents, then fonts should be regenerated for you. for sure people are using 300dpi, 600dpi, but... you never know :) wrobell <wrob...@pld-linux.org> _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en