[tex-live] Three questions on XeTeX, TeXLive 2008, and Ubuntu

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Mon May 11 22:02:21 CEST 2009


2009/5/11 Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>:
> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Nicolas Vaughan wrote:
>>    1. *Where do I tell XeTeX to find the fonts? *I created a .fonts
>>    directory, where I put all my OTFs. Buy I don't remember in which conf file
>>    I tell XeTeX to look for them. (In my previous installation all worked
>>    smoothly.)
>
> You have to make them available to fontconfig, that is all. More I don't
> know about fontconfig.
>
You have two options:

1. Put them to a directory under $TEXMF/fonts/opentype and run
mktexlsr (you may have them in texmf-local)

2. Install them to Xorg and run fc-cache (in CentOS Xorg fonts reside
under /usr/share/fonts)

>>    2. *How can I fool Ubuntu to acknowledge TL 2008 is installed?* With
>>    Ubuntu 8.10 I followed this instructions (
>>    http://weblog.elzevir.fr/2008/11/tex-live-2008-a-la-vanille-sur-debian-like/)
>>    for that (in particular, to install Kile without having to install TL 2007),
>>    but this isn't working at all with Ubuntu 9.04. I understand that Ubuntu
>>    switched to a new package
>
> You have to create equivs packages, or keep installed both.
>
>>    3. Finally, does somebody know *why the Ubuntu repositories only
>>    distribute TexLive 2008*?! It's preposterous!
>
> Why? Because we don't have enough volunteers here on the Debian side,
> since I am programming most things for TeX Live itself and for
> the Debian packages, and the Ubuntu packages are nothing but the
> Debian ones.
>
> So if you know someone with time, energy, perl knowledge, and willing
> to contribute on a volunteer basis (like *ALL* of us!!!), then please
> tell him to join us.
>
> I would not say *anything* here is "preposterous" here but your remark.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
>
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