Thomas Esser writes:
Hmm. Maybe, in texmf.cnf, TEXMFVAR must be added to SYSTEXMF
SYSTEXMF works for what it is good for: to decide if some font source
comes from a system tree.
Texmf.cnf says about SYSTEXMF
% The system trees. These are the trees that are shared by all the users.
Frank Küster writes:
Maybe SYSTEXMF should be renamed to TEXMFSYSFONTS?
Hm, which version of teTeX in Debian do you mean? For the 3.0
packages, neither TEXMFVAR nor TEXMFSYSVAR will be in TEXMFSYS.
Ah, I see, there were some major changes after 2.99.7 that I haven't
introduced into my
Bertalan Fodor writes:
I've found the problem, but I'm still not sure in solution:
there is an mf.base file in
/usr/share/texmf/web2c
That's strange.
But texconfig creates its formats in
/var/lib/texmf/web2c
That's correct.
So mf looks at the wrong place for mf.base
Can you find out
Thanks for suggesting looking at texmf.cnf
I've found the following:
TEXMFMAIN = /usr/share/texmf
TEXMFCONFIG = $TEXMFMAIN
% - make sure that $TEXMFVAR precedes $TEXMFMAIN in the TEXMF definition.
TEXMF =
{!!$TEXMFCONFIG,!!$TEXMFVAR,!!$TEXMFMAIN,$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFDIST}
As you
