[External] problem with updmap

[Goodman, Frederick M]

Well, that was an excellent suggestion.   I typed in the command by hand and put extra spaces between each word, and then it was parsed correctly.    (It did NOT work when I put the command with extra spaces in a text file and then copied and pasted the line into the terminal — I had to actually type the spaces in the terminal!)

I’m not sure what other implications this has, but the immediate problem was solved.

Many thanks, Fred

On Dec 14, 2022, at 8:52 PM, Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info<mailto:norbert at preining.info>> wrote:

On Thu, 15 Dec 2022, Goodman, Frederick M wrote:
Thanks.   I prefer to continue doing it as I indicated.  I’ve been doing it that way for a decade at least, and it is the way recommended here: https://tug.org/fonts/fontinstall.html.  The fonts are installed in the texmf-local tree.

Well, the method described will generate an
updmap.cfg
in TEXMFCONFIG (afair) and the rest is the same.

(Note to myself, I should update the fontinstall.html page ...)


The command invocation was as indicated.  In fact, I just cut and paste from my notes which I use every year when I install the new texlive. But I agree with you that the command seems not to be parsed correctly, and the mystery I’d like to clear up is why.

Is the "space" between "--force" and "--enable" a **real** space?

2.  sudo -H updmap-sys --force --enable Map=newfont.map,

I ask, because here in Japan where I live I often make the failure to
insert a Japanese space, and eg Emacs does display Japanese full width
spaces as half width, so they are hard to distinguish.

Another idea is your IFS? Do you have some strange setting for IFS env
variable?

The problem is **independent** of Perl! It is a problem of your shell.
The shell splits the input string into words (by $IFS) and passes those
words on as separate arguments to Perl.

What perl sees is *one* argument
"--force --enable Map=newfont.map"
and process this one with the usual argument parser.

So if there is a problem, it needs to be searched in the shell.

Best

Norbert

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