How To Install texlive-dancers on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-dancers on Fedora 36.
What is texlive-dancers
The (Sherlock Holmes) book contains a code which uses dancing men as glyphs. The alphabet as given is not complete, lacking f, j, k, q, u, w, x and z, so those letters in the font are not due to Conan Doyle. The code required word endings to be marked by the dancing man representing the last letter to be holding a flag thaTiStOsaYsentenceSiNthEcodElooKlikEthiS. In some cases, the man has no arms, making it impossible for him to hold a flag. In these cases, he is wearing a flag on his hat in the ‘character’. The font is distributed as Metafont source; it works poorly in modern environments, and could do with expert attention (if you are interested, please contact the CTAN team for details).
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-dancers on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-dancers.
Install texlive-dancers on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install texlive-dancers using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-dancers
Install texlive-dancers on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install texlive-dancers using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-dancers
How To Uninstall texlive-dancers on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the texlive-dancers package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-dancers
texlive-dancers Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/dancers
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/dancers/dancers.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/dancers
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/dancers/dancers.tfm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-dancers on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).