TeX Live 2007 - bugs and updates

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• The Windows TeX programs do not invoke mktexmf by default. Thus, for instance, the lh fonts to support Cyrillic will not be found. One workaround is to make these settings in your texmf.cnf (kpsewhich texmf.cnf should find the file, and searching for MKTEXMF will find the section; some commented-out assignments are present):

  MKTEXPK = 1
  MKTEXMF = 1
  MKTEXTFM = 1
  MKTEXFMT = 1
  

• On Windows, texhash.exe is out of date. It should be a copy of mktexlsr.exe.
• The Euro sign does not typeset in ConTeXt in the default encoding, because the glyph came from the marvosym font, and the tfm file has been renamed (from fmvr8x.tfm to umvs.tfm). The workaround is to add these two lines to the local cont-sys.tex or document preamble (or update your ConTeXt):

  \definefontsynonym[fmvr8x][umvs]
  \loadmapline[+][umvs MarVoSym <marvosym.pfb]
  

• Lucida and MathTime support was (mostly) removed in 2007, for various reasons. The packages are on CTAN (without the actual proprietary fonts, of course). If you were depending on these support files from teTeX and TeX Live, you may find this message (and following ones) helpful in recovering.

• Some powerdot documents fail to have proper page sizes, due to an unforeseen interaction with dvips. To fix, download the current config.ps file and replace the installed one. You can find the config.ps in use by running the command:

  kpsewhich --format='dvips config' config.ps
  

• The osa package was improperly installed, with all files left in doc/latex/osa instead of being distributed among the other directories. Please follow the installation instructions included in the package to fix this.

More changes

These changes are not bugs, but they can still affect some users:

• The default value for TEXMFLOCAL is now $SELFAUTOPARENT/../texmf-local, to make it a sibling of the main installation (/usr/local/texlive/2007 in the default setup).
• fmtutil now puts the formats in an $engine subdirectory of /some/texmf/web2c, instead of directly in web2c/. (Also, the .log files are not kept; that was an accident.)
• In 2007, the inst version of TeX Live includes binaries for only three architectures: i386-linux, powerpc-darwin, and win32. (This is so it will still fit on a CD.) If you are using some other system, please use the live distribution instead; it can also be installed to a hard drive, of course. Ways to obtain TeX Live are described separately.