[tex-live] TL 2009 not installing URW Garamond ?
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Mon Oct 12 23:55:14 CEST 2009
On 12 October 2009 Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> Philip TAYLOR a écrit :
> > I notice that after completing the installation of
> > TL 2009, re-compiling the Porphyrogenitus lexicon
> > fails because of missing URW Garamond (URW Garamond
> > was added locally after the installation of TL 2008).
> >
> I think the right question here is not why URW Garamond is not
> included in TL09: it wasn't included in the previous releases,
> nothing has changed in its licence since last release, it is still
> not included in the upcoming release: this is quite understable.
>
> A better question may be: would it be possible that a newer
> installation of TL automagically recognizes the fonts already
> installed in texmf-local from a previous version? I think the
> question has been raised, and the answer is that it would be
> possible in theory, but is not yet automatically done by
> getnonfreefonts-sys for some reason.
>
> Reinhard, any comments on this point?
I'll think about a better solution. But it's not easy because
getnonfreefonts itself is absolutely dumb. It doesn't know how to
install a particular font, it doesn't know where to download it from,
it's unaware of TDS, it doesn't know what to pass to updmap --enable,
and so on.
I could add an option --rebuild, for instance, which updates the
updmap database. But I don't think that the installer should call
getnonfreefonts-sys --rebuild automatically. Suppose that you are
off-line when you upgrade to a newer version of TeX Live from a DVD.
An alternative is to store the information on the file system. But
this can only be done while the fonts are installed. Thus, it's not a
solution for people who installed them already. And even if a newer
version of getnonfreefonts would write the information to a file now,
people can use it soonest next year when they upgrade to TL-2010.
Regards,
Reinhard
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