[tex-live] bbold 11pt fonts ... thanks ;-)

Greg Gamble gregg at maths.uwa.edu.au
Wed Jun 11 15:35:31 CEST 2008


Excellent ... thanks Norbert.

We seem to have 2007-13 versions. Anyway, I have applied your
fix and it's all working sweetly again.

Regards,
Greg Gamble

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:42:33AM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mi, 11 Jun 2008, Greg  Gamble wrote:
> > Does anyone know what's amiss? ... how to fix it? Is it something missing in
> > tex-live? .... or the ubuntu packaging? ... or might it possibly be due to
> > finding residual teTeX stuff that's confusing the tex-live stuff, so that
> > it's the right place?
> 
> Which version of texlive-fonts-extra and of texlive-base (latex-base)?
> 
> The problem is that (not only the Debian packages, but also TeX Live)
> shipped two files ubbold.fd and Ubbold.fd. The former taking precedence
> but being wrong.
> 
> If you have
> 	texlive-latex-base or texlive-base release << 2007-14
> then your best way to fix it to remove the file yourself:
> as root
> 	rm /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/jknapltx/ubbold.fd
> 	mktexlsr
> 
> That should work. From texlive-base 2007-14 onward this file is not
> shipped anymore.
> 
> See Debian bug report #449221 (bugs.debian.org/449221)
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Norbert
> 
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