Local texmf tree

[Leon]

Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus at rath.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> In breezy, my local $HOME/texmf tree worked fine. I had a file
> texmf/pdftex/pdftex.cfg that referred to additional map files in
> texmf/pdftex/config:
>
> map +5fu.map
> map +5sb.map
>
> However, when I upgraded to dapper, these map files are no longer
> found. Apparently, pdftex.cfg is now completely ignored. Appending my
> mapfiles to /var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map worked
> around the problem, but this is of course not a real solution.
>
> Where do I have to place and configure user specific font map files so
> that pdflatex uses them?

take a look at /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf

>
> Thanks,
>
>    --Nikolaus


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Leon