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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:18:55PM +0700, 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.

Just to let you know that the way fonts are handled has completely
changed since version 1.0.5.10. By default, we now use Type 1 fonts.
An extra font package with Type 1 analogues of EC and LA fonts
can be downloaded from our website. If a good Type 1 equivalent for
a font is not available, then we fall back on Metafont, but generate
it in ~/.TeXmacs/fonts instead of the location proposed by TeX.
From now on, this should (doubly) solve your problem.

Best wishes, Joris