Re: pfa2pfb
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- Subject: [mg96684] Re: pfa2pfb
- From: Peter Breitfeld <phbrf at t-online.de>
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:48:23 -0500 (EST)
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David wrote:
> On 17 Feb, 11:25, Jens-Peer Kuska <ku... at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> that is nonsense, dvips work with binary *.pfb and ASCII
>> PostScript fonts. Just find the font map file for dvips
>> that comes with you Mathematica and add the texmf root
>> that is part of the Mathematica distribution to the
>> texmf roots that your TeX system searches.
>>
>> If you have MikTeX or teTeX fin the fontname/wolfram.map
>> in the TeX installation root and delete it.
>> This file is a false font map file, I have reported it several
>> times to the developers but they had other things to do than
>> to replace the file with the correct one that comes with
>> Mathematica.
>>
>> Regards
>> Jens
>
> Thanks. I have a version of teTex that comes from MacPorts and works
> well. It doesn't have the offending wolfram.map in it, so perhaps the
> teTex maintainers have at last responded to your complaints.
>
> You say "Just find the font map file for dvips that comes with your
> Mathematica". I know exactly where this is, but what am I supposed to
> do with the information?
>
> Please excuse me if I have misunderstood what you have told me. Surely
> it wouldn't work to just add Mathematica's wolfram.map to my teTeX
> files at the appropriate place, because the various programs will
> still not know where the fonts are to be found.
>
> You say (or at least I think this is what you are saying) that I
> should add the texmf tree provided by Mathematica to my own texmf
> tree. I'm a bit reluctant to do so, as later downloads of teTex from
> MacPorts will overwrite (and delete) any such addition. The good
> alternatives seem to me to be:
> 1. Change some configuration file in the teTex distribution to enable
> searching in Mathematica's texmf. Which configuration file, and what
> is the minimal change needed? I would then keep a copy of the changed
> configuration file in my home directory, and a diff with the original,
> so that I can easily maintain any changes I make when packages are
> updated.
> 2. Make a symbolic link /opt/local/share/texmf/MmaTexmf ->
> Mathematica's texmf. Will this work?
> 3. Maybe tex and its cousins already search my $HOME/texmf. In this
> case I can just copy Mathematica's texmf to the texmf I already have
> in my home directory. I have a vague memory of editing some
> configuration file so that this would be done, but I've forgotten
> which one. Any suggestions?
>
> Should I then update updmap.cfg and run updmap? If I have to update
> updmap.cfg, precisely what changes are needed? And what about texhash?
> Should that be run with any arguments or flags?
>
> And then I would want to check that I have done things correctly by
> using kpsewhich. However, in teTex, and presumably in other modern
> packages of TeX and its cousins, environmental variables seem to be
> defined only once one invokes tex or latex or whatever. The result is
> that kpsewhich givees a null response to almost any command. What
> arguments or flags are required to make kpsewhich give the right
> answers?
>
> Sorry to ask so many questions, but I have been struggling for some
> time ineffectually to find out what to do.
>
> Thanks again,
> David
>
I'm using tex and Mathematica on Mac too. All seems to work since I did
the following steps:
In $HOMETEXMF, which is $HOME/Library/texmf, go to the subdirectories
fonts/afm, fonts/tfm, fonts/type1 and fonts/vf.
In each of these directories add a symlink pointing to the corresponding
directory (afm, tfm,...):
Mathematica.app/SystemFiles/IncludeFiles/TeX/texmf/fonts/<afm>/wolfram
Make another symlink in the directory
fonts/map/dvips/misc/wolfram.map
which points to
Mathematica.app/SystemFiles/IncludeFiles/TeX/texmf/dvips/config/wolfram.map
Now make sure, the wolfram.map is active in your updmap.
Use updmap --edit as admin for that.
No need to run texhash on Mac for files in $HOMETEXMF, TeX will search
$HOMTEXMF first.
To make Ghostscript know about the Mathematica-Fonts I added the paths
/Applications/Mathematica.app/SystemFiles/Fonts/Type1
and
/Applications/Mathematica.app/SystemFiles/IncludeFiles/
TeX/texmf/fonts/type1/wolfram
to the environment variable GS_FONTPATH in my .bashrc
Hope I could help
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