Re: Installation of LilyPond without root permissions

[Mats Bengtsson]

> (Yep, and I do have the "fonts installed in the wrong place"-problem - but
> for now I am very happy)

There's actually a remedy even if you're not allowed to touch
the global teTeX installation.

(Let's hope I get all the details right, it's a bit hairy.)

- Create a directory, for example ~/texmf.mine and the subdirectories
  ~/texmf.mine/fonts/source/

- Goto ~/texmf.mine/fonts/source/ and make a link to the 
  Lilypond mf/ directory, e.g. 'ln -s "$HOME"/pgm/lilypond-1.3.xx/mf/'

- set the environment variable TEXMF to 
  '{\!\!'"$HOME"'/texmf.mine:\!\!$TEXMFMAIN}'
  (it's critical to get the quotes correct, $HOME should be expanded
  but $TEXMFMAIN should not be expanded)

- Run 'mktexlsr ~/texmf.mine' (if the mktexlsr command isn't found,
  use texhash instead)

- See to it that MFINPUTS isn't defined. 

Now everything should be setup. The generated fonts should now
end up below ~/texmf.mine/fonts/tfm/ and ~/texmf.mine/fonts/pk/.

     /Mats