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[Ralf Juengling <address@hidden>]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Andrey G. Grozin wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Ralf Juengling wrote:
> > I finally discovered that texmacs doesn't do italic text at all
> > (symbols in math environment are italic, but no text). Mark a
> > few words and do Format->Shape->Italic. The appearance doesn't
> > change. I just observed this with Texmacs 1.0.5.6, do others
> > observe the same?
> This is a problem with fonts. I see similar things when I run TeXmacs as
> an ordinary user: it starts to generate the necessary font, but cannot
> write some generated file due to insufficient priviledges. To check this,
> try running TeXmacs as root: everything will work fine. As yet, nobody
> found how to fix this. TeX/LaTeX work fine on the same system, and
> generate fonts (using metafont) without any problem.


Thanks!
I indeed run texmacs in an environment where I don't have root
privileges.  Hm, why is it so difficult to fix?

I have never tried to build texmacs myself, but if installing
it into my home directory would fix the problem, then I would
try that. I'd appreciate to hear from other users what work
arounds have been found.

Cheers,
ralf