can't find tfm sometimes

Question

I'm trying to use this Garamond package to use its Garamond font, and I can't use it if I try to tidy the files into their own subdirectory.

Contrary to the instructions, if I unpack the zip in the same directory as my document (giving me a package directory with many .tfm and other files) and add package to my TEXINPUTS path, compiling fails with:

[1] (input/package/t1ggm.fd)
kpathsea: Running mktextfm ggmr8t
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ggmr8t
This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)


kpathsea: Running mktexmf ggmr8t
! I can't find file `ggmr8t'.
<*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ggmr8t

Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ggmr8t

Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: ggmr8t.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ggmr8t' failed to make ggmr8t.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

! Font T1/ggm/m/n/7=ggmr8t at 7.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
<to be read again> 
                  relax 
l.72 \garamond

?

However, if I extract all of the files from the package directory into the same directory as my document, it compiles fine and my text is in Garamond as desired.

I'd really prefer to keep all these files in a subdirectory, whether that's named package or (preferably) garamond. Is there some extra environment variable to set for the tfm files, so it doesn't try to compile them again from scratch?

Answer 1

I had a long command line for pdflatex anyways, so I stored the font files in a subdirectory named garamond and 'solved' it with a bash script:

#!/bin/bash

FOO=`ls garamond`
cp garamond/* .

# pdflatex command here...

rm -f $FOO

I have no idea what model TeX is using for paths, but it doesn't match modern hypertext systems and I can't find any documentation of it, so it requires ridiculous workarounds.

Answer 2

• The garamond(ggm) package is superseded by the garamondx package. Read the documentation of the latter to see what you gain when switching to the new package.
• In case garamondx is not already installed with TeXLive, and can not be installed via the package manager: TeX keeps its files in so called TEXMF trees, and expects a certain structure in them. One of the trees is the TEXMFHOME tree, usually located under ${HOME}/texmf (This can be checked in the configuration file texmf.cnf, mine is located under /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf). Then you could manually download this file to ${HOME}/texmf und unzip it there. Afterwards, running texhash will make all files of garamondx accessible to TeX. The .tds.zip files contain package files prestructured, suitable for a TEXMF tree.

But please try to get the package first via your package manager, or the TeXLive package manager.