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[Andreas Seidl <address@hidden>]

Dear Constantin,

I'll cc my answer to the texmacs-users mailing list, as other people 
might have the same problem, or a better answer.

> It is by chance that yesterday I found out that there is a program like 
> TeXmacs (I am using Emacs all the time). I installed the newest version 
> from the GNU web-page. The installation and everything went smoothly.

TeXmacs is also available via Cygwin's installer setup.exe. The current 
version 1.0.6 should be available within 48h. Meanwhile it can be 
installed from my "private" package repository. Please see 
http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~seidl/texmacs/tmtour.html#2 for installation 
instructions.

If "texmacs --version" does not give you 1.0.6, then you should upgrade to 
this version. Anyway I recommend to use setup.exe for installation, as 
this will ensure that you have all required packages. The list of required 
packages can be found also under 
http://andreasseidl.com/cygwin/release/TeXmacs/setup.hint .

> The problem is that each time I am running the program TeXmacs 
> regenerates the missing fonts and this is very annoying.

I've installed the 1.0.6 version on a fresh Cygwin installation, and 
displayed the user manual. Some .pk files and some .tfm files were 
generated. After closing and restarting TeXmacs no fonts were regenerated. 
(There are some locatedb errors though.) So I cannot reproduce your 
problem.

> I followed the instructions from the Web to install fonts in ~/.TeXmacs 
> but this problem continued to persist. Any input as to what should I do 
> to change this behaviour is welcome since I really want to try this 
> program. Should I change something within the environment variables, or 
> set up new ones in order to tell the system where to look for the 
> missing fonts?

I've never needed to install these fonts myself. Maybe someone else has an 
idea.

Best Regards,
Andreas
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