Re: cm-super (was: test for t1lib version fails)

"George N. White III" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta
Organization Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 22 May 2004, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:

>    > leave out
>    > the pfb font files, but include the necessary support files,
>    > commented out entries in config files and directories with short
>    > files of installation instructions?
>
> This doesn't make things much easier.  I, for instance, just unpacked
> cm-super.tar.gz and added the cm-super tree to $TEXMF in texmf.cnf
> (as an additional texmf tree) and updated updmap.cnf.

Watch out!  There are .map files with duplicate names under
dvips and under dvipdfm.  Updmap needs the dvips versions to
construct the dvipdfm maps -- if it finds the dvipdfm versions
then the pdftex.map file will be wrong.

If support for cm-super is included, some risks are avoided, but
against that you have the danger that some support files will
be changed in the distro - creating extra work for the maintainers.
When you buy a commercial font you don't usually get the TeX support
files, so in that case teTeX has a good reason to include them.
I don't see a good reason for including cm-super support.

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George N. White III  <[email protected]>
   Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada
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