[SOLVED] TeXLive: Installing font package and updating font map fails

Question

I am trying to install the newtx package, which is available here at CTAN [1].
Since I don't want to mess with my TeXLive installation, I am trying to do that as a local user only.
So I placed the package into ~/texmf/tex/latex/. , ran texhash on texmf/ to update my local ls-R, and so far everything works nicely; for example, the .sty files in that package can be seen:
$ texhash texmf
texhash: Updating /home/$USER/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Done.
$ kpsewhich newtxmath.sty
/home/$USER/texmf/tex/latex/newtx/newtxmath.sty
Now, following the packages README [2], I need to update the my TeX font maps. Seems like 'updmap' is the right tool to do that for my user only:
$ updmap --enable Map=ntx.map
copy /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg => /home/$USER/.texlive/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg
Config file: "/home/$USER/.texlive/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg"
dvips output dir: "/home/$USER/.texlive/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap"
pdftex output dir: "/home/$USER/.texlive/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap"
dvipdfm output dir: "/home/$USER/.texlive/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvipdfm/updmap"
pxdvi output dir: "/home/$USER/.texlive/texmf-var/fonts/map/pxdvi/updmap"
/usr/bin/updmap is creating new map files
using the following configuration:
LW35 font names : URWkb
prefer outlines : true
texhash enabled : true
download standard fonts (dvips) : true
download standard fonts (pdftex) : true
create a mapfile for pxdvi : false
Scanning for LW35 support files [ 3 files]
Scanning for MixedMap entries [ 36 files]
Scanning for KanjiMap entries [ 0 files]
Scanning for Map entries [129 files]
ERROR: The following map file(s) couldn't be found:
ntx.map
Did you run mktexlsr?
You can delete non-existent map entries using the option
--syncwithtrees.
That's my problem: it can't find ntx.map, although I ran mktexlsr (which is texhash). So what to do?
1: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/newtx
2: http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/mirrors/CTAN … wtx/README
SOLUTION: The trick consists in placing all files into the necessary folders: *.map goes to fonts/map/newtx/, *.vf to fonts/vf/newtx/, and *.tfm to fonts/tfm/newtx/. Also, *.pfb needs to be placed in fonts/pfb/newtx/. *.enc files go to fonts/enc/newt/, and everything else remains in tex/latex/newtx/.
Last edited by Stalafin (2012-06-20 12:32:16)

Answer 1

ConnorBehan wrote:Oh it's part of the mlocate package. It will search your entire filesystem for a filename but there are other programs that do the same. I just meant, can you find ntx.map yourself? If so, you could put it in a new directory or let tex know with the TEXINPUTS environment variable.
I really don't think that this makes a lot of sense as regards TeXlive; I have checked (with kpsewhich --var-value) if indeed all variables TEXMFHOME, TEXMFVAR, and TEXMFCONFIG are pointing to reasonable places, and indeed they do.
I have found this guide:
http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ … n/ch4.html
Although it is Debian, I figure one can easily adapt it. So I tried that, and placed ntx.map in TEXMFHOME/fonts/map/$SYNTAX/newtx/ntx.map . I wasn't sure about $SYNTAX, so I just tried it with dvips. This time, $ updmap --enable Map=ntx.map did actually work, and there were not errors:
$ updmap --enable Map=ntx.map
copy /etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg => /home/janis/.texlive/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg
Config file: "/home/$USER/.texlive/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg"
dvips output dir: "/home/$USER/.texlive/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap"
pdftex output dir: "/home/$USER/.texlive/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap"
dvipdfm output dir: "/home/$USER/.texlive/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvipdfm/updmap"
pxdvi output dir: "/home/$USER/.texlive/texmf-var/fonts/map/pxdvi/updmap"
/usr/bin/updmap is creating new map files
using the following configuration:
LW35 font names : URWkb
prefer outlines : true
texhash enabled : true
download standard fonts (dvips) : true
download standard fonts (pdftex) : true
create a mapfile for pxdvi : false
Scanning for LW35 support files [ 3 files]
Scanning for MixedMap entries [ 36 files]
Scanning for KanjiMap entries [ 0 files]
Scanning for Map entries [130 files]
Generating output for dvipdfm...
Generating output for ps2pk...
Generating output for dvips...
Generating output for pdftex...
Files generated:
/home/$USER/.texlive/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap:
11493 2012-06-19 21:57:22 builtin35.map
15956 2012-06-19 21:57:22 download35.map
523074 2012-06-19 21:57:22 psfonts_pk.map
747564 2012-06-19 21:57:22 psfonts_t1.map
747559 2012-06-19 21:57:22 ps2pk.map
14 2012-06-19 21:57:24 psfonts.map -> psfonts_t1.map
/home/$USER/.texlive/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap:
747566 2012-06-19 21:57:23 pdftex_dl14.map
745992 2012-06-19 21:57:23 pdftex_ndl14.map
15 2012-06-19 21:57:24 pdftex.map -> pdftex_dl14.map
/home/$USER/.texlive/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvipdfm/updmap:
339 2012-06-19 21:57:22 kanjix.map
Transcript written on "/home/$USER/.texlive/texmf-var/web2c/updmap.log".
/usr/bin/updmap: Updating ls-R files.
There indeed now is a 'Map ntx.map' at ~/.texlive/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg . However, compilation of a document containg `\usepackage{newtx}` still fails (see the bttom of this wall of text):
pdflatex test.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2012/dev/Arch Linux)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test.tex
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <v3.8m> and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
rman-x-2011-07-01, ngerman-x-2011-07-01, afrikaans, ancientgreek, ibycus, arabi
c, armenian, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech, danis
h, dutch, ukenglish, usenglishmax, esperanto, estonian, ethiopic, farsi, finnis
h, french, galician, german, ngerman, swissgerman, monogreek, greek, hungarian,
icelandic, assamese, bengali, gujarati, hindi, kannada, malayalam, marathi, or
iya, panjabi, tamil, telugu, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, kurmanji,
lao, latin, latvian, lithuanian, mongolian, mongolianlmc, bokmal, nynorsk, pol
ish, portuguese, romanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, serbianc, slovak, sloven
ian, spanish, swedish, turkish, turkmen, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/minimal.cls
Document Class: minimal 2001/05/25 Standard LaTeX minimal class
) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/libertine.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifluatex.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lettrine/lettrine.sty
Loading lettrine.cfg
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lettrine/lettrine.cfg))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/fxl.inc)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/fxb.inc)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/fxk.inc)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/fxi.inc))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/mh/mathtools.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/mh/mhsetup.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsmath.sty
For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option.
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amstext.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsbsy.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsopn.sty)))
(/home/janis/texmf/tex/latex/newtx/newtxmath.sty
`newtxmath' v0.96, 2012/06/05 Math macros based on txfonts (msharpe)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/kastrup/binhex.tex)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval/xkeyval.tex))) (./test.aux)
(/home/janis/texmf/tex/latex/newtx/omlntxmi.fd)
(/home/janis/texmf/tex/latex/newtx/omsntxsy.fd)
(/home/janis/texmf/tex/latex/newtx/omxntxex.fd)
(/home/janis/texmf/tex/latex/newtx/untxexa.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/libertine/t1fxl.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/graphics.cfg)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdftex-def/pdftex.def
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/infwarerr.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ltxcmds.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/supp-pdf.mkii
[Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]
))) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/pdftexcmds.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/ifpdf.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/epstopdf-base.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/grfext.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/kvdefinekeys.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/oberdiek/kvoptions.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/kvsetkeys.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/oberdiek/etexcmds.sty)))
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/epstopdf-sys.cfg)))
kpathsea: Running mktextfm ntxmi
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map typeface abbreviation tx for ntxmi.
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/map/fontname/special.map?
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ntxmi
This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (TeX Live 2012/dev/Arch Linux)
kpathsea: Running mktexmf ntxmi
! I can't find file `ntxmi'.
<*> ...e:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ntxmi
Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...e:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ntxmi
Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: ntxmi.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ntxmi' failed to make ntxmi.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
! Font OML/ntxmi/m/it/10=ntxmi at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not fo
und.
<to be read again>
relax
l.13 \begin{equation*}
EDIT: Of course, everything else from the newtx pacakge was still in TEXMFHOME/tex/latex/newtx/ .
Last edited by Stalafin (2012-06-19 20:08:30)