I used to have the problem of xdvi not being able to find my feta fonts
if the pk weren't in the current directory.  Also, running ly2dvi would
save copies of the feta files in the current directory.  Because of this,
I would have many copies of the same fonts taking up space and I would
have to track them down and erase them in the users directories between
upgrades.
   teTex looks for metafont files in $TEXMF/fonts/source and not
$TEXMF/mf.  I tried doing some basic changes to my texmf.conf file, but
couldn't get it to work with out some major hacking.  I like my config
files nice and easy to understand. I tried moving $LILLYHOME/* to
$LILLYHOME/fonts/, but, of course, lilypond couldn't find its files.  I
currently have teTeX looking in the standard $TEXMF (/usr/share/texmf) I
have each user create $HOME/texmf/fonts where there are symlinks to
$LILLYHOME/* with the exception of the mf directory renamed to
source in my home texmf directory.  With this setup, xdvi is able to find
and compile the feta fonts unlike before, and ly2dvi doesn't create
multiple copies of the fonts.

   Is there an easier way of doing this(?), or will I need to make larger
changes to texmf.conf.  My suggestion is to put the tex fonts in a
directory structure simmilar to the tex distribution (unless teTeX doesn't
have a standard  font directory structure.

Thanks for listening,
Tim Nowaczyk

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