New subject: [Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1919932] Culmus Hebrew fonts aren't usable by TeXLive after installation

25 Jan 2021


      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1919932
Bug ID: 1919932
           Summary: Culmus Hebrew fonts aren't usable by TeXLive after
                    installation
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 33
            Status: NEW
         Component: culmus-fonts
          Assignee: petersen@redhat.com
          Reporter: nikita@leshenko.net
        QA Contact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org
                CC: i18n-bugs@lists.fedoraproject.org,
                    petersen@redhat.com, pnemade@redhat.com,
                    psatpute@redhat.com, vishalvijayraghavan@gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---
    Classification: Fedora
Created attachment 1750496
  --> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1750496&action=edit
Basic Hebrew document
Description of problem:
On a clean Fedora 33 after installing texlive, babel-hebrew, and
tex-fonts-hebrew, I
can't use pdflatex to render a Hebrew document. Detailed steps to reproduce and
a possible fix are provided below.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
texlive                9:2020-34.fc33         
texlive-babel-hebrew   9:svn30273.2.3h-34.fc33
tex-fonts-hebrew       0.1-33.fc33
How reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start a new Fedora 33 container: podman run -it fedora:33
2. dnf install texlive texlive-babel-hebrew tex-fonts-hebrew
3. Try to render hello.tex document attached to this bug report (this is a
basic
   Hebrew document).
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english,hebrew]{babel}
\begin{document}
שלום!
\end{document}
Actual results:
We get the following error message:
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file rdavid): Font rdavid at 600 not found
 ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Full log is at first.log.
Expected results:
Document is rendered :)
Additional info:
We need two steps to resolve the problem here. I'm not sure if these steps are
the idiomatic way to fix the issue, but it worked for me...
The first issue that that culmus.map is not included in the pdflatex.map, even
though culmus.map is enabled in /etc/texlive/web2c/updmap.cfg. I was able to
solve it with
- updmap-sys --syncwithtrees
- updmap-sys
to recreate the map file. It would be nice the Culmus will do this by default
as
part of the installation. (Another temporary per-document solution is to add
\pdfmapfile{culmus.map} to the Hebrew document.)
Now if we re-run pdflatex we get a new error:
!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file DavidCLM-Medium.pfa): cannot open Type 1 font
file for reading
 ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
The full log is in second.log.
There are multiple ways around this problem:
1. Note that /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/public/ has a broken symlink to
   culmus. Even if we fix the symlink to point to /usr/share/fonts/culmus/, it
   doesn't work because pdflatex doesn't seem to follow directory symlinks. But
   if we actually create a directory and symlink fonts individually, it will
   work, like this:
mkdir /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/public/culmus2
for i in /usr/share/fonts/culmus/*; do ln $i
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/public/culmus2/${i##*/}; done
2. A more "general" fix is to edit /etc/texlive/web2c/texmf.cnf instead and set
   OSFONTDIR to /usr/share/fonts/, but it seems like this change extends beyond
   Culmus so I'm not sure how practical is it to edit OSFONTDIR as part of
   installation.
After building the map file and teaching latex to find Type1 Culmus fonts the
Hebrew document can compile successfully.
I hope that it will be possible to adjust the Culmus package so that Hebrew
latex works out of the box.
Thanks! I'm available for questions and clarifications.
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