===== Original Message From Hans Hagen ===== ishamid wrote:

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I really wish that updating/upgrading were not always such a pain...

normally it isn't but currently there are three issues that make it painfull:

- incompatible changes in the tds (enc/map paths) - changes in pdftex (no config, better map support) - the transition to latin modern - (unnoticed) changes in pattern file names - the usual changes in fonts

I played around for quite some time with the texmf.cnf environment variables in both \TeXLive and \ConTeXt trees. I noticed that even when I got \TeXLive to search \ConTeXt first, upon compiling it still could not find certain files (a tds issue?), while I could never get \ConTeXt to search \TeXLive properly. This was not helped by the fact that my July04 fpTeX comes with a corrupt kpathsea.pdf documentation using type3 fonts! Yesterday was not my day... Best Idris Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523