GNU bug report logs - #40558
Modular TexLive "Insufficient extension fonts" and duplicate fonts

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Message #26 received at 40558 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: elaexuotee <at> wilsonb.com
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: 40558 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40558: Modular TexLive "Insufficient extension fonts" and
 duplicate fonts
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 08:42:27 +0900

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> wrote:
> 
> elaexuotee <at> wilsonb.com writes:
> 
> > Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> wrote:
> >> This is a problem with the modular TeX Live packages.  The pk files are
> >> bitmap fonts.  I found that adding texlive-cm-super to the union helps
> >> in that the bitmap variants of the CM fonts will not be generated any
> >> more.  More font packages may be needed in the union to prevent TeX from
> >> falling back to bitmap fonts in other cases.
> >> 
> >> In any case, that’s unrelated to Jelle’s patch, which looks fine to me.
> >
> > Thank you, Ricardo, for looking into this.
> >
> > I have lost signficant amounts of hair trying to find a solution. Adding
> > texlive-cm-super doesn't help for the document I trying to typeset. In fact, I
> > even grabbed all texlive packages with fonts and threw them in the
> > texlive-union to no effect. No matter what, pdflatex bails when trying to find
> > the font to set $~$.
> >
> > The only way I have gotten it to typeset under a texlive-union so far is by
> > munging texlive-amsfonts as Jelle mentioned.
> 
> I have since added texlive-amsfonts/fixed, which installs all the files
> it is supposed to (according do the tlpdb).  I’ve also since fixed font
> search.
> 
> Can this issue be closed?

Are we sure this is fixed? The issue where you added texlive-amsfonts/fixed is
still seeing the original missing fonts error for eufm10:

https://issues.guix.gnu.org/53339#3-lineno36

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