---
name: "update-vfontmap"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "xdvik-ja"
version: "22.84.13-j1.34-3"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/update-vfontmap"
---

# update-vfontmap(8)

shell script to generate /var/lib/texmf/vfontmap

## NAME

update-vfontmap - shell script to generate /var/lib/texmf/vfontmap

## SYNOPSIS

**update-vfontmap** *\[options\]*\

## DESCRIPTION

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

**update-vfontmap** is a shell script to generate /var/lib/texmf/vfontmap from files in  /etc/texmf/vfontmap.d/\*.map

The xdvik-ja provides 20ascii-ptex.map and 20ntt-jtex.map, and we assume that other TeX related packages should use the name only with the lower cases.  The two digit numeral determines the order in which update-vfontmap read a file.

A user who wants to customize /var/lib/texmf/vfontmap should add,  for example, 22myfonts.map in /etc/texmf/vfontmap.d/ and run 'update-vfontmap'.

## OPTIONS

- **-v**

  Show verbose messages.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by TSUCHIYA Masatoshi \<tsuchiya@namazu.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).