Re: Lucida under Debian?

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:01:22 +0300, Harri Haanpaa wrote:

Hi,

I've used the Lucida fonts happily under Debian. Now the nice computer
maintenance people have kindly updated my computer, and I can no longer
get them to work.

The package still lies unpacked under ~/texmf, kpsewhich lucida.map
shows the map file, but as I'm working with user privileges only I
cannot seem to find a way to get the map file to appear in 'updmap
--listmaps' except with a preceding #! as in '#! Map lucidabr.map' which
I gather comes from some system-wide configuration file. A bit of
googling seems to indicate that Debian has set up a somewhat more
esoteric updmap system where the actual configuration file is set up
from snippets, so I set up

$ cat .texmf-config/updmap.d/29harrifonts.cfg Map lucida.map
Map mtpro.map

and when I write

$ updmap --enable Map lucida.map

I get among the output
Enabling map file in /home/haha/.texmf-config/updmap.d/29harrifonts.cfg
Running update-updmap to merge the changed files update-updmap: unable
to determine the configuration directory; you can specify it with
--conf-dir

I have no idea what to try any more. Oh, and I have run mktexlsr every
now and then too. When I try to pdflatex, I then get errors like
Warning: pdflatex (file hlsb8r): Font hlsb8r at 1120 not found

This also with the lucida-sample.tex bundled with the package, so my tex
file should not be at fault.

Can you think of a way, I don't particularly care how ugly, for me to
get the fonts to work again?

Regards,
Harri

The LB-fonts are installed system-wide on my computer: .pfb etc and .map
file in the /usr/local/share/texmf tree; add lucida.map to one of
the .cfg files in /etc/texmf/updmap.d/; then run (as root) texhash;
update-updmap; updmap-sys. You have the fonts installed locally -- the
only difference should then be (as user) to use updmap in the last step.
That .texmf-config in your home directory directory puzzles me, shouldn't
that be .texmf (or even texmf)?
.

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