[tex-live] updmap.cfg query

[Zdenek Wagner]

2009/7/26 Rowland McDonnell <rjmmnet-lists at yahoo.co.uk>:
>>    > Could anyone give me a hint as to where I might look to find out
>>    > about the process of tlmgr installing a fount?
>>
>>I doubt it will help, but FWIW, I (with the help of many others)
>>recently wrote a web page on font installation:
>>http://tug.org/fonts/fontinstall.html.
>
> Thank you for that - I think I already understood everything that page
> has to say, except that it was useful for me to discover the following
> incantation:
>
> kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFLOCAL
>
> (I can't remember things like that; I have to make written notes in
> places that I'll find them at a time when they'll be useful.  This is

Why? Making notes is the best way to laziness and not understanding. I
do not remember options but the --help option always helps once I have
read and understood the man page.

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