[tex-live] getnonfreefonts --help

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 14:27:49 CET 2009


On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Lars Madsen wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
> > On Friday 23 January 2009, Lars Madsen wrote:
> >> getnonfreefonts --help states
> >>
> >> getnonfreefonts installs fonts in $TEXMFHOME.
> >> getnonfreefonts-sys installs fonts in $TEXMFLOCAL.
> >>
> >> for a non technical user who does not know anything about the difference
> >> between $TEXMFHOME and $TEXMFLOCAL, I would suggest changing this.
> >>
> >> At least make sure that the user knows that getnonfreefonts will install
> >> locally for this user only, whereas getnonfreefonts-sys installs for all
> >> users.
> >>
> >> $TEXMFLOCAL does not really sound global...
> >>
> >> /daleif
> >
> > Here's what I get:
> >
> > TEXMFHOME=/home/nbecker/texmf getnonfreefonts -l
> > ! ERROR: The variable TEXMFHOME is not set.
> >
> > I am not a tex newb, but I find this _very_ confusing.  What's wrong
> > here?
>
> which shell are you using here?
>
> under bash it might be more correct to use
>
> export TEXMFHOME=/home/nbecker/texmf
> getnonfreefonts -l
>
> (untested)

Nope, under bash:
VARIABLE=VALUE command

does exactly the same thing, except that VARIABLE is only set while command is 
executed.



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