Re: teTeX/dvips

2011-08-17 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Ryan Johnson was heard to say: AFAIK, it's a tex thing and has little or no relation to anything linux or unix. Other than that I tend to agree with your assessment, tho. Just for the sake of completeness: most TeX implementations use the Kpathsea library for path searching. Its idiosyn

Re: teTeX/dvips

2011-08-16 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 16/08/2011 2:26 PM, R P Herrold wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Charles Hyder wrote: Turns out, the include path for dvips's map files is /usr/shar/texmf/fonts/map// (!) Here, the "//" means "search all subdirectories", of course. I have to admit ignorance here of this seeming common knowledge

teTeX/dvips

2011-08-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Charles Hyder wrote: Turns out, the include path for dvips's map files is /usr/shar/texmf/fonts/map// (!) Here, the "//" means "search all subdirectories", of course. I have to admit ignorance here of this seeming common knowledge. How does adding a second slash to the e

Re: teTeX/dvips

2011-08-16 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Dear all, On 15 August 2011 12:03, Charles Hyder wrote: > Hi! I've just upgraded to a fresh Cygwin distribution. I installed the > full teTeX package. Then I tried to add my usual stuff like extra TeX > packages that I had with my previous installation of Cygwin. as already discussed here, teTeX

teTeX/dvips

2011-08-15 Thread Charles Hyder
Hi! I've just upgraded to a fresh Cygwin distribution. I installed the full teTeX package. Then I tried to add my usual stuff like extra TeX packages that I had with my previous installation of Cygwin. (Yes, I have read that the problems with 3rd party packages are not welcome here, but 1) I doubt