[tex-live] Feature request : upgrading and fonts

[Norbert Preining]

On Fr, 17 Sep 2010, Benoit RIVET wrote:
> A recent message in news:fr.comp.text.tex <8b2bf7e5-f83f-40dd-9dd7-d57ea6de0fea at t7g2000vbj.googlegroups.com> shows how frustrating it proves for the average user to upgrade and find out that all previously added fonts have vanished.

Reading the man page of tlmgr would help and explain how to achieve
exactely that.

In short, simply put all the maps into
	TEXMFLOCAL/web2c/updmap-local.cfg
and call *once* tlmgr generate.

That is all that has to be done.

Well, if one read
	tlmgr --help
or any other of the man yresources for the tlmgr man page.

In there the section about "generate" is the magic key ...

Enjoy ...

BTW: You said: "upgraded" ... neither MaCTeX nor TeXLive allows for
upgrades, but only new installations ...

Best wishes

Norbert
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