support overriding updmap.cfg settings in updmap-local.cfg

git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@16583 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl b/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
index 6b2f4091ad3..0d6d7f17b58 100755
--- a/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
+++ b/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
@@ -4977,7 +4977,7 @@ respective files: it recreates them from scratch.
 For C<fmtutil> and the language files, this is normal, and both the TeX
 Live installer and C<tlmgr> routinely call I<generate> for them.
 
-For C<updmap>, however, C<tlmgr> use
+For C<updmap>, however, C<tlmgr> does I<not> use
 C<generate>, because the result would be to disable all maps which have
 been manually installed via S<C<updmap-sys --enable>>, e.g., for
 proprietary or local fonts.  The I<generate> action only incorporates
@@ -5028,6 +5028,14 @@ The form C<generate language> recreates both the C<language.dat> and the
 C<language.def> files, while the forms with extension recreates only
 the given language file.
 
+Special consideration for updmap.cfg: This file allows the setting
+of five switches: dvipsPreferOutline, LW35, dvipsDownloadBase35,
+pdftexDownloadBase14, and dvipdfmDownloadBase14. The defaults for 
+these as set in C<updmap-hdr.cfg> are fine for almost all cases. If 
+you have the need to change them you can include changed settings to
+these five switches in your C<updmap-local.cfg> file and they will
+be taken over by C<generate updmap>.
+
 Options:
 
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