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[Andreas Klöckner <address@hidden>]

On Dienstag 13 September 2005 12:18, 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.

I've run into this problem at various times on Debian and Ubuntu. On Debian, 
I 
need to add myself to the group "users", or whichever group ends up 
owning /var/lib/texmf (and especially /var/lib/texmf/ls-R?). That has always 
fixed it for me. Oh, and after you have permission to write to the texmf 
tree, remove your $HOME/.TeXmacs as well.

Andreas