Re: Font installation problem

[Mats Bengtsson]

I know you've worked around these problems by now, but give
some answers anyway.

Mark Hymers wrote:
> On Fri, 25, Apr, 2003 at 02:49:31PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen spoke thus..
>
> > Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >
> > > I can't understand why lilypond can't find the file when
> > > kpsewhich can find it, since they use exactly the same
> > > library call.
> >
> > By adding the version to the lilypond datadir (/usr/share/lilypond/1.6.6/)
> > we hoped that these troubles would go away, but this seems not realy
> > to be the case.
>
>
> Is my problem a common one then?

No, I don't think I've seen exactly this problem before, that's why
I'm so puzzled.


> > Maybe we should think about writing a tool that prints everything it
> > can find on the current font state, lily-check or so?
>
>
> Is there a manual way of checking this?  Sorry, but TeX 
> has always been one of the remaining configuration "black boxes" 
> to me - I should probably read up on it.

That's more or less what we tried to do in the earlier emails.
If you really want to dig into the TeX configuration, read the
teTeX documentation `texdoc TETEXDOC`, the info pages for the
kpathsea library and the comments in `kpsewhich texmf.cnf`.

   /Mats