Local texmf tree

[Nikolaus Rath]

Leon <sdl.web at gmail.com> writes:
>> 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

I don't find anything helpful in there. Can you be a little bit more
specific?

Thanks,

   --Nikolaus

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