[tex-live] "Can't find font" : which step(s) have I overlooked ?

[Zdenek Wagner]

2010/2/12 Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:
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> Karl Berry wrote:
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>> As for getnonfreefonts, Reinhard was following the pattern established
>> for fmtutil, etc., of course.  Perhaps we should not have started with
>> that -sys suffix, but just used a --sys option, but it's too late now.
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> IMHO, it's never too late to abandon a bad idea and adopt a good one
> in its place.
>
That's the question of compatibility. A lot of tools may depend on the
*-sys scripts. It they were removed, a lot of third party tools would
cease to work.

> ** Phil.
>



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