Gerben, Apologies for posting any confusion. 1. The only package fink in use is the tetex placeholder system-tetex I did previously have fink tetex but now only have i-Installer tetex almost latest. 2. The texroot report no longer occurs presumably I have cleaned up my installation further. The command now aborts simply with the subpath message. texfont --en=8r --ve=urw --co=courier --so=auto TeXFont 1.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2001 (STILL BETA) processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/urw/courier --help : show some more info Locate gives the following list suggesting that texfont is not looking at /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex for fonts locate /fonts/afm/urw/courier /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/afm/urw/courier /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/afm/urw/courier/ucrb8a.afm /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/afm/urw/courier/ucrbo8a.afm /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/afm/urw/courier/ucrr8a.afm /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/afm/urw/courier/ucrro8a.afm Texfont help suggest that I should use the following command but the same unknown subpath is returned. texfont --en=8r --ve=urw --fontroot=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex --co=courier --so=auto In the file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/context/config/texexec.ini There is a line which seems very odd and PC like set TeXFontsPath to l:/tex/texmf;l:/tex/texmf-local; I have commented out this line and set TeXFontsPath to other more likely values like texmf, texmf.tetex all do not effect the unknown subpath. I'm now beyond the end of my knowledge. -- Nigel