Hello teTeXnicians, For years I have been using the commercial Lucida Bright fonts from Y&Y, by putting the .pfb files in a separate tree /opt/share/texmf/fonts/.
My current system is tetex 3.0-4 which comes with Linux Fedore Core 4. [I have the fonts in /opt/share/texmf/fonts/ and some additional in /opt/share/texmf/latex/, etc. Actually, I put software which does not come by rpm packages in common repositories as much as possible in /opt. This is handy to keep my own additions separate during upgrades.] In /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, I then change TEXMFLOCAL to TEXMFLOCAL = /opt/share/texmf After running mktexlsr, and with \usepackage[LY1]{fontenc,lucidbry} in the preamble of my latex documents, everything (xdvi, dvips, pdflatex) worked like a charm. However, after upgrading from Linux Fedore Core 3 to 4 (and tetex from 2.0.2-21.3 to 3.0-4) mktexpk can't find the fonts any more: xdvi spawns error messages like [...] kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+70/600 --dpi 670 hlhbc8y mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for hlhbc8y. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. xdvi: Error: Can't find font hlhbc8y; using cmr10 instead. Expect ugly output. [...] BTW, dvips and pdflatex are suffering from the same problem. When I move the whole /opt/share/texmf/ tree to /usr/local/share/ and undo the changes to texmf.cnf, nothing changes, so apparently that was not the problem. Additionally, other packages in the same /opt/share/texmf/ tree are working fine. What am I doing wrong here, and what is the recommended way/place to include additional packages and fonts, if you wish to keep them separate from the standard distribution tree? Thanks in advance, Sido. ____________________________________________________________________________ DISCLAIMER: http://www.rivm.nl/disclaimer.htm