mktex.cnf

[Staszek Wawrykiewicz]

On 28 Mar 2000, Fabrice Popineau wrote:

> Given the current  texmf.cnf, is it  harmless (maybe even useful !) to
> have this mktex.cnf :
> 
> : ${MT_FEATURES=appendonlydir:varfonts:fontmaps}
> : ${MODE=ljfour}
> : ${BDPI=600}
> 
> instead of the current one ?

Sure! Without it the user cannot write to nonwritable $TEXMFMAIN/fonts
What about:

# uncomment the following line to use ps2pk instead of gsftopk:
# : ${ps_to_pk=ps2pk}

lines in mktex.cnf? I see gsftopk is default at compile time. However
some may want to play with ps2pk ;-)

Staszek Wawrykiewicz
email: staw@gust.org.pl