On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 12:34:41PM +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > It builds just fine here.
Good, thanks. > But where has all that font directory related material gone? > No varfonts and 'remove global write permissions' and so on. The situation is now somewhat different than at the time the first version of texconfig was written. The TDS was not well esablished and supported everywhere, so I have seen a need to make lots of things configurable: dosnames, stripsupplier, ... I think that most people can just use the defaults for these now. Concerning the permissions / destinations, things have improved, too. Generated files are no longer mixed with font sources in the same tree and with the new TEXMFVAR variable, users have a way to specify their own tree for variable data. The default settings should work for most people, even in multi-user environments. If the directory specifies by TEXMFVAR is not writable by one user, generated fonts will go to $VARTEXFONTS. It was no easy decision to drop this part from texconfig and even though I think that there is less need to change the defaults than with previous releases, I might have missed some good reason to keep it. What do you (and other users think)? Thomas
