Dear David, > I have recently installed teTeX 3.0 on Solaris 8. > > I want to set up a world-writeable fonts directory as suggested in > TETEXDOC. I followed the instructions in section 2.7, but things do not > seem to quite match what is written. > > TETEXDOC seems to imply that mktex.cnf is to be found in > ..share/texmf/web2c (section 2.6) but I only have mktex.cnf in > ..share/texmf-dist/web2c.
I don't see anything wrong in teTeX and I don't know what your problem is. The instructions in TETEXDOC are neutral regarding the actual texmf tree. None is mentioned and only web2c/mktex.cnf is specified. > I ran: > texconfig font vardir ..share/texfonts > - that is fine Ok. texconfig should have updated the VARTEXFONTS variable in the texmf.cnf file. > But then when I run: > texconfig-sys font rw > I do not get mktex.cnf updated. I also seem to get the empty directory > share/texmf-config created. texconfig works in the following way if some option gets set in some config file: - locate the current version of the file (e.g. search using the usual rules, i.e. in all texmf trees) and copy it into some temp. area - make sure, the destination for a possible modified version of the file is writable; this step involves the creation of the $TEXMFCONFIG / $TEXMFSYSCONFIG directory if itdoes not exist - in some other temp. area, modify the config file - if the two files in the temp areas differ, install the new version of the config files into $TEXMFCONFIG / $TEXMFSYSCONFIG. In your case, it is likely that your web2c/mktex.cnf file already has the features : ${MT_FEATURES=appendonlydir:varfonts} so that no modification was necessary and no new config files was installed. The idea in teTeX-3.0's new texconfig is to store new versions of config files only if this is necessary. > Am I doing something wrong? I dont know. Have you checked if it works, e.g. by running mktextfm ecrm1321.tfm Thomas