[tex-live] please clarify tlmgr generate
Karl Berry
karl at freefriends.org
Thu Nov 5 23:53:30 CET 2009
Can someone please clarify the following sentence in the man page for tlmgr?
This refers to the `generate updmap` action, but I can't figure out what
it's supposed to mean.
"For "updmap", however, "tlmgr" use "generate", because the result would be
to disable all maps which have been manually installed via "updmap-sys
--enable", e.g., for proprietary or local fonts."
There's a missing "does not" before "use". I'll fix it after the release.
To restate:
- on update/add of a relevant package, tlmgr calls generate
fmtutil and generate language.
- in contrast, tlmgr does not call generate updmap when a font package
changes, because then any intervening user runs of the updmap-sys
script would get obliterated.
Hope that makes more sense.
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