[tex-live] symlinks in repository?

Werner LEMBERG wl at gnu.org
Tue Jun 28 09:47:55 CEST 2005


> > There is no clash, but for the sake of maintainability it would be
> > good to share the data.  Vladimir's cmap.sty is very special since
> > it basically adds data directly from the texmf/font tree (namely,
> > cmap files) to a pdftex document.
> 
> i tend to keep this kind of code (like additional pdftex specific
> cmap code) in tex files since one never knows how shared data may
> change to less sharable data and then changes may go unnoticed

Ok, I'll go the brute-force method of not sharing any CMAP files,
neither between cmap.sty and dvipdfmx, nor with the fonts themselves.


    Werner



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