Just for my understanding. Does texfont.pl only read in TEXMFMAIN or does it also write (can it be a search path or does it require for TEXMFMAIN to be just one directory)?

texfont.pl checks several places. By a very quick look at the sources, it looks for the following: TEXMFMAIN TEXMFLOCAL TEXMFEXTRA TEXMFFONTS It does not look for TEXMFTE, but by specifying the switch --rootlist, it can be given a list of trees, which it then browses through. Ok, it might be useful to add a few here, such as TEXMFTE (for us gwTeX users), but maybe that's an endless road. But the real problem is really in a font installation script which explicitly overrides the default settings and gives a wrong tree. --- The problem is easy to pinpoint into type-tfm.dat. Unfortunately, just removing the explicit definitions does not seem to solve the problem. The non-standard root seems to be difficult to be told to the system. For encodings, texfont.pl can be force-fed a value which is passed to all scripts in a batch file (using a special --en=? switch). However, no such mechanism exists for other parameters (such as the --ro). Tweaking the TEXMFFONTS to point to TEXMFTE is one possibility, but then the fonts will also be installed into TEXMFFONTS instead of TEXMFLOCAL. Ideally, it would be nice to be able to tell the script that the source fonts are in TEXMFWHATEVER and they are going into TEXMFSOMETHINGELSE. I haven't been able to figure out how to achieve that without tailoring the batch file. - Ville