Re: [NTG-context] Minimals and dvipng

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote:

Le 20 janvier à 21:16:57 Arthur Reutenauer écrit notamment:

| > Thanks a lot, it works. Will there be any side-effect on normal uses of context?

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| Definitely. TEXFONTMAPS is the path to the various font mapping files | for dvips, (x)dvipdfm(x) and pdfTeX. I would strongly advise against | setting that variable for normal use of the minimals. What you could do | without tweaking with TEXFONTMAPS, is to put ps2pk.map in some directory | inside fonts/map in the minimals, together with the dvipng binary. Best | in texmf-local, for this is the location for local changes. But then, | you of course need to make sure that the necessary fonts are available | in the minimals, etc.

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| Since you have TeX Live installed, your best bet is probably to use | the minimals with the special TEXFONTMAPS setting only for ConTeXt + | dvipng, and otherwise use the minimals only, or TeX Live only.

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Well that doesn't look too good... I wish I could use dvipng whenever I need to.

You should also be able to use TEXFONTMAPS=/location/ dvipng so that the variable is set only for the dvipng run. Maybe setting this as an alias for dvipng will also work (I don't know how unix shell aliases interact with variables) Aditya