[tex-live] tlpretest i386-cygwin: TrueType fonts in texmf-local not found

Rolf Dieterich rolf.dieterich at arcor.de
Sun Jun 19 09:01:55 CEST 2011


Hi Manuel,

> Just curious, why do you want to install MinionPro in a texm tree rather
than a
> standard system location such as ~/.fonts? It works just fine this way.

as one says: for historical reasons.

I use to work with portable installations. Also on Windows I rather don't
want to install the tons of fonts under c:\windows\fonts. Most of these
fonts I use only in the context of TeX anyway.

Rolf



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