TeXLive again

[wrobell]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 07:16:33PM +0100, Przemyslaw Iskra wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 04:36:52PM +0100, Zsolt Udvari wrote:
> > > First: you must set TEXMFMAIN environment variable (this maybe isn't
> > > error, but would be nice when shouldn't set).
> > > Second: it missed *.fmt and I don't know how can I create. This the
> > > biggest problem.
> > It's done.
> > 
> > Next problem: sometimes needs to create fonts, and there are few possibilities:
> > - create the fonts to $HOME/.texlive-2008 directory - imho this is not
> > too good solution
> > - create the fonts to /var/lib/texmf (or any other directory) - it's
> > the better, but there are problems with this.
> > It must be writeable by all users. The idea, that its owner/group is
> > 'texmf', and some files of texlive has sgid, doesn't work, because it
> > calls 'mkdir', 'cp'.
> > 
> > What should I do?
> 
> Could you tell us more about those fonts ? As far as I understand this
> is just some font cache.
> - Is it generated for every shape and size ?
> - How big are those files, compared to source ?
> - How much time does it take to generate them ?
> - How often same cache is used ? How probable is that different users
>   will be interested in same font cache ?
> 
> Maybe we could generate this cache for fonts we distribute and place it
> somewere under /usr/share ? And if a user needs some additional fonts
> she could just use that $HOME/.tex... directory.

that's bit complicated. if you use different dpi for you dvi documents,
then fonts should be regenerated for you. for sure people are using
300dpi, 600dpi, but... you never know :)

    wrobell <wrobell at pld-linux.org>