Local texmf tree

Nikolaus Rath Nikolaus at rath.org
Sun May 28 13:33:32 UTC 2006


Henk Koster <H.A.J.Koster at xs4all.nl> 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?
>
> The $HOME/texmf tree is already in the search path by default, so no
> problem there. Additional map-files for pdftex/latex can be specified in
> /etc/texmf/pdftex/pdftex.cfg, and will then be used by updmap. You'll have
> to run the following commands in order: 
>
> sudo texhash
> sudo update-updmap
> sudo updmap
>
> Let me know if this works, since I'll be switching my TeX/LaTeX stuff to
> Dapper myself soon.

This will work most likely, but I don't want to install the files
system wide but only for a specific user. Is there really no
configuration file in ~/texmf that can be used to specify additional
map files?

Thanks,

   --Nikolaus






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