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authorNorbert Preining <preining@logic.at>2011-09-06 01:39:59 +0000
committerNorbert Preining <preining@logic.at>2011-09-06 01:39:59 +0000
commiteeebdebd2adde61c9cde22da5413d99a0b023296 (patch)
treeac52ec92ae70dc0414bc4bbd98e6b9f0275c0351 /Master
parent04a7f780cb7eed923f59a22a9fba691867335494 (diff)
add documentation about moving of TEXMFLOCA updmap.cfg up in the hierarchy
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@23843 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
Diffstat (limited to 'Master')
-rw-r--r--Master/tlpkg/dev/multi-updmap.pl23
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/dev/multi-updmap.pl b/Master/tlpkg/dev/multi-updmap.pl
index f019b870c10..9b71119bc3a 100644
--- a/Master/tlpkg/dev/multi-updmap.pl
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/dev/multi-updmap.pl
@@ -13,16 +13,6 @@
# Anyone may freely use, modify, and/or distribute this file, without
# limitation.
#
-# TODO:
-# DONE - if a font is defined in two map files, warn and use the top one
-# - in syncwithtrees: if we actually disabled fonts, should we
-# run mkMap afterwards? The original didn't do it AFAIR?!?
-# DONE - ignore texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
-# DONE - sort output by map name, not font name!
-# - general problem: we currently ship updmap.cfg in TEXMFSYSCONFIG
-# which *overrides* TEXMFLOCAL, so local sysadmins cannot disable
-# any fonts. The updmap.cfg has to me moved into TEXMFDIST/web2c/
-# and tlmgr needs to update this file from the installed fonts.
$^W=1;
use strict;
@@ -1524,7 +1514,7 @@ Usage: $prg [OPTION] ... [COMMAND]
Update the default font map files used by pdftex, dvips, and dvipdfm(x),
as determined by all configuration files updmap.cfg (the one returned by
-running "kpsewhich --all updmap.cfg").
+running "kpsewhich --all updmap.cfg", but see below).
Among other things, these map files are used to determine which fonts
should be used as bitmaps and which as outlines, and to determine which
@@ -1595,8 +1585,15 @@ Explanation of trees and files normally used:
updmap reads all the updmap.cfg found by
kpsewhich -all updmap.cfg
- or those given on the command line with --cnffile.
- According to the actions it might write to one of the given files or
+ or those given on the command line with --cnffile. If kpsewhich is
+ used to determine the list of config files, there is one caveat: An
+ occurrence of updmap.cfg in TEXMFLOCAL is moved up in the priority
+ list just after files from TEXMFCONFIG, TEXMFVAR and TEXMFHOME. This
+ allows system administrator to override settings in
+ TEXMFSYSCONFIG/web2c/updmap.cfg which is used by tlmgr to manage
+ the installed options.
+
+ According to the actions updmap might write to one of the given files or
create a new updmap.cfg, see below for details.
If multiple updmap.cfg files are found, all the map files mentioned