> As the teTeX on my system was quite old (teTeX 0.9), I decided to update by
> installing 1.0 in my home directory. Now, when xdvi cannot find a pk font
> it generates one in the current directory. My reading of the kpathsea
> documentation is that the fonts should be generated in a more global
> location, such <TEXMF>/fonts/pk, if the file permissions allow this, which
> they do. Indeed, this is what teTeX 0.9 used to do. Can anyone suggest why
> I am getting this unwanted behaviour? Does it have something to do with
> the fact I did not install as root?
teTeX-1.0 supports multiple texmf trees. When generating bitmap font,
mktexpk first looks from which texmf tree the source comes from and
tries to install the bitmap font there by default.
If, however, the font source does not come from a "system's texmf tree"
(that is defined in texmf.cnf), the font will not be installed into the
default texmf tree, but into the current directory.
Thomas
