Tag: IvriTex

A few days ago, I finally decided to install IvriTeX-1.2.1 on my system. I’m running teTeX-3.0. The new version of IvriTeX includes some very important improvements and, at least for me, the most important thing is support for the Culmus fonts. teTeX-3.0 introduced a major directory change, which causes many problems when installing packages that are unaware of the changes. In this post, I will try to walk through the installation process.

TEXMF will be the directory of your local TeX tree (usually /usr/share/texmf). Before beginning the installation process, make sure you have the Culmus fonts installed. Apparently, Culmus is not optional; it’s a requirement. I’ll assume that your Culmus fonts are installed in /usr/share/fonts/culmus.

1. Download the IvriTeX-1.2.1 source code from here.
2. Extract the archive into a temporary directory.
3. Save the diff file below to a file named “Makefile_patch” and save it inside ivritex-1.2.1/fonts/culmus.
4. Apply the patch by going to the ivritex-1.2.1/fonts/culmus directory (under the directory where you extracted the source archive) and executing “patch Makefile_patch”. The patch will alter the places where some files will be installed.
5. As root, execute “updmap –enable Map culmus.map”.
6. Still as root, execute “mktexlsr”.
7. IvriTeX 1.2.1 should be installed now.

--- Makefile    2007-02-14 19:59:52.000000000 +0200
+++ Makefilenew 2007-02-16 10:11:07.000000000 +0200
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@
 vf_target     = $(TEX_ROOT)/fonts/vf/culmus
 # this is where ivritex will eventually be:
 tex_target    = $(TEX_ROOT)/tex/generic/babel
-encode_dir    = $(TEX_ROOT)/dvips/base
-dvips_cfg_dir = $(TEX_ROOT)/dvips/config
+encode_dir    = $(TEX_ROOT)/fonts/enc/dvips/base
+map_dir       = $(TEX_ROOT)/fonts/map/
 sysconf       = $(DESTDIR)/etc
 updmap_dir    = $(sysconf)/texmf/updmap
 #culmus_target = $(PREFIX)/fonts/culmus
@@ -137,11 +137,11 @@
    mkdir -p $(sysconf)/texmf/updmap.d
    echo "Map culmus.map" >$(sysconf)/texmf/updmap.d/10culmus.cfg
 else
-   mkdir -p $(dvips_cfg_dir)
-   cp culmus.map $(dvips_cfg_dir)/
+   mkdir -p $(map_dir)
+   cp culmus.map $(map_dir)/
   ifeq ($(tetex_ver),2)
    # this should run mktexlsr as well
-   $(updmap) --enable Map $(dvips_cfg_dir)/culmus.map
+   $(updmap) --enable Map $(map_dir)/culmus.map
   else # for tetex-1
     ifeq ($(tetex_ver),1)
    # TODO: fill in sed line here