[tex-k] whitespace in updmap.cfg

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Christoph,

Interesting, can you please send me the output of 
    updmap --version
?

I will check.

Thanks

Norbert

On April 7, 2017 11:11:31 AM GMT+09:00, moe12 at gmx.net wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I recently ran into a problem compiling a latex document and got the
>error message
>
>mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for eufm5
>
>After reading bugreports on similar issues as well as
>http://tug.org/fonts/fontinstall.html
>I found out that the problem was in /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
>What should have been the entry "Map euler.map" had additional
>whitespace after "Map" and apparently updmap did not correctly
>recognise
>this entry. (Removing the white space and running updmap/updmap-sys
>solved the problem)
>
>Now I don't know how this white space got there, since I certainly
>never
>edited any related file. So maybe something went wrong during
>installation (see below, for the packages I installed). Nevertheless, I
>thought it might be worthwhile to consider making updmap accept
>additional white space after the keyword "Map".
>
>
>I installed the texlive-most package group from the main Arch
>repository, containing the following packages
>
>texlive-bibtexextra 2016.42278-1
>texlive-bin 2016.41290-10
>texlive-core 2016.42515-2
>texlive-fontsextra 2016.42286-1
>texlive-formatsextra 2016.41438-3
>texlive-games 2016.39318-2
>texlive-genericextra 2016.42435-1
>texlive-htmlxml 2016.41841-1
>texlive-humanities 2016.42509-1
>texlive-latexextra 2016.42294-1
>texlive-music 2016.41913-1
>texlive-pictures 2016.42477-1
>texlive-plainextra 2016.42258-1
>texlive-pstricks 2016.42276-1
>texlive-publishers 2016.42522-1
>texlive-science 2016.42453-1
>
>I don't know if the origin of the problem lies in the install scipt of
>one of the packages or in any progam within one of the packages, since
>I
>am not familiar with the whole installation procedure of the texlive
>system.
>
>Either way, for me the problem is solved, but maybe it turns out to be
>useful for anyone having similar issues,
>
>Cheers
>Christoph

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