[tex-live] updmap.cfg query

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Fri Jul 24 16:46:30 CEST 2009


On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Rowland McDonnell wrote:
> Could anyone give me a hint as to where I might look to find out about
> the process of tlmgr installing a fount?

Why do you want to know that? In the end the font is available to
the TeX programs, that is all that matters.

IN fact what it does:
- unpack the .tar.xz
- call mktexlsr
- if a map file is included call updmap-sys --enable Map ...
That's it.

Best wishes

Norbert

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