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update-texmf-config(8)

update-texmf-config8

Script used in maintainer scripts to trigger tex-common actions

Usage

update-texmf-config [options]

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the update-texmf-config command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original script was designed for Debian packaging system.

update-texmf-config is a shell script that is called from maintainer scripts shipping new map files, hyphenation patterns, or any other TeX input file.

The script simply activates the respective trigger, namely texmf-map for font map files, texmf-hyphen for hyphenation patterns, and texmf-format for format updates. All the necessary action will then be carried out by the tex-common package.

Options

map

Activate the texmf-map trigger.

hyphen

Activate the texmf-hyphen trigger.

format

Activate the texmf-format trigger.

History

  • Debian 13 (Trixie): the text shown here
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm) to Debian 9 (Stretch)
  • Debian 8 (Jessie) to Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)

Author

This manual page was written by Norbert Preining <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

From tex-common 6.19 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.